The 3 Requisites for Success--Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R’s). * * * * * BUSINESS--Call on a Business man in Business hours only on Business. Transact your Business and go about your Business, in order to give him time to finish his Business, and you time to mind your own Business. [I had this printed on cards, one of which was handed to every caller on me at the Admiralty.] * * * * * The Nelsonic Attributes-- (_a_) Self Reliance. (_b_) Power of Initiative. (_c_) Fearlessness of Responsibility. (_d_) Fertility of Resource. * * * * * Originality never yet led to Preferment. * * * * * Mediocrity is the Road to Honour. * * * * * Repetition is the Soul of Journalism. * * * * * No difficulty baffles great zeal. * * * * * The Pavement of Life is strewn with Orange Peel. * * * * * Inconsistency is the bugbear of Silly Asses. * * * * * Never Deny: Never Explain: Never Apologise. * * * * * “To defy Power that seems omnipotent ... Never to change, nor falter, nor repent.” (SHELLEY.) * * * * * Cardinal Rampolla got his Hat at a younger age than any preceding Cardinal. Asked to account for his phenomenal success, he replied:--It’s due to 3 things: { asked for } I never { refused } anything. { resigned } * * * * * The best scale for an experiment is 12 inches to a foot. * * * * * Dread Nought is over 80 times in the Bible (“Fear Not”). So I took as my motto “Fear God and Dread Nought.” * * * * * Moltke wrote as follows: “A clever military leader will succeed in many cases in choosing defensive positions of such an offensive nature from a strategic point of view that the opponent is compelled to attack us in them.” * * * * * In looking through a packet of ancient papers I find some youthful thoughts of my own and some others which evidently I thought very choice. “Anything said before a lecture muddles it.” “Anything after weakens it!” * * * * * “There is nothing you can’t have if you want it enough.” * * * * * The following extract is from Blake: “He who bends to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s Sunrise.” * * * * *