"Business men who do not know how to fight worry die young."
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Dr. O.F. Gober one of the medical executives of the Santa Fe railway once was talking about the effects of worry, and he said: Seventy percent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they only got rid of their fears and worries. Don't think for a moment that I mean that their ills are imaginary, he said . Their ills are as real as throbbing and sometimes a hundred times more serious. I refers to such illnesses as nervous indigestion, some stomach ulcers, heart disturbances, insomnia, some headaches and some types of paralysis.
"These illnesses are real. I know what I am talking about," said Dr. Gober, for I myself suffered from a stomach ulcer for twelve years.
"Fear cause worry. Worry makes you tense and nervous and affects the nerves of your stomach and actually changes the gastric juices of your stomach from normal to abnormal and often leads to stomach ulcers."
Dr. Harold C. Habein of the Mayo Clinic who read a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, saying that he had made a study of 176 business executives whose average age was 44.3 years. He reported that slightly more than a third of these executives suffered from one of the three ailments peculiar to high-tension living-heart disease, digestive-tract ulcers, and high blood pressure. Think of it - a third of business executives are wrecking their bodies with heart disease, ulcers, and high blood pressure before they even reach forty-five. What price success! And they aren't even buying success! Can any man possibly be success who is paying for business advancement with stomach ulcers and heart trouble? What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, he could sleep in only one bed at a time and eat only three meals a day. Even a ditch-digger can do that and probably sleep more soundly and enjoy his food more than a high-powered executive. Frankly, I would rather be a share-cropper down in Alabama with a banjo on my knee than wreck my health at forty-five by trying to run a railroad or a cigarette company.
And speaking of cigarettes - the best known cigarette manufacturer in the world recently dropped dead from heart failure while trying to take a little recreation in the Canadian woods. He amassed millions and fell dead at sixty-one He probably traded years of his life for what is called "business success".
In my estimation, this cigarette executive with all his millions was not half successful as my father - a Missouri farmer- who died at eight-nine without a dollar.
"These illnesses are real. I know what I am talking about," said Dr. Gober, for I myself suffered from a stomach ulcer for twelve years.
"Fear cause worry. Worry makes you tense and nervous and affects the nerves of your stomach and actually changes the gastric juices of your stomach from normal to abnormal and often leads to stomach ulcers."
Dr. Harold C. Habein of the Mayo Clinic who read a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, saying that he had made a study of 176 business executives whose average age was 44.3 years. He reported that slightly more than a third of these executives suffered from one of the three ailments peculiar to high-tension living-heart disease, digestive-tract ulcers, and high blood pressure. Think of it - a third of business executives are wrecking their bodies with heart disease, ulcers, and high blood pressure before they even reach forty-five. What price success! And they aren't even buying success! Can any man possibly be success who is paying for business advancement with stomach ulcers and heart trouble? What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, he could sleep in only one bed at a time and eat only three meals a day. Even a ditch-digger can do that and probably sleep more soundly and enjoy his food more than a high-powered executive. Frankly, I would rather be a share-cropper down in Alabama with a banjo on my knee than wreck my health at forty-five by trying to run a railroad or a cigarette company.
And speaking of cigarettes - the best known cigarette manufacturer in the world recently dropped dead from heart failure while trying to take a little recreation in the Canadian woods. He amassed millions and fell dead at sixty-one He probably traded years of his life for what is called "business success".
In my estimation, this cigarette executive with all his millions was not half successful as my father - a Missouri farmer- who died at eight-nine without a dollar.
What's the meaning of insanity?
It's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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