Success: Business and Life Principles

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of the intelligent people

and the affection of the children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better,

whether by a healthy child, a garden patch,

or a redeemed social condition;

To know that one life has breathed easier

because you lived here.

This is to have succeeded.

-Ralph Waldo Emmerson