1. What is the relative importance of organization in sawing wood,
building houses, running a small store, or a large factory?
2. Which wins the battle: the general, the soldiers, or the armament?
3. What determines whether a crop is poor or good: the ground, the
weather, or the farmer?
4. Why do some businesses give increasing returns as they grow?
5. One has said: "The natural differences in powers and aptitudes are
certainly not greater than are natural differences in stature." Is this
sound in an economic sense?
6. Who runs the business in a large store owned by a large family? Who
has the risk?
7. Who is the enterpriser in a stock company where there is a
superintendent elected by a board of directors, themselves elected by
shareholders with one vote per share?
8. Who is the employer in a coöperative cooper-shop whose superintendent
is elected by the workmen?
9. Has "a good chance in life" much to do with success?
10. What are the chief elements of business success?
11. Is modern business competition a competition of men only?