Most children must creep before they can walk. The reason is because
they are not sure of their small limbs and try them before venturing to
depend upon them.
When the child can walk he goes right ahead and walks all his life
without fear or hesitation.
It is the same in every line of business. The business man must know
just where he stands all the time, and he must begin small in order to
learn how to rely upon himself.
You are looking for something big, large, something you think
commensurate with your abilities. Well, then, let me tell you that you
will never find anything to suit you. You are inflated with your
ability, your importance, and fail to see the small things at your feet
and within your reach that if put together will aggregate the very big
thing you want.
You aim at the moon and feel bad because you do not hit it. While your
aim may be perfectly good and correct, the object may be too far off for
you to hit, or else you must work yourself within reach of it and then
you will hit it.
Small beginnings have made every great man on earth. Out of the huts and
squalid cabins of the world have issued men who have conquered the world
of arms and commerce.
You have the advantage of them from an educational point of view, and
think you must be saddled upon a fiery horse before you know whether you
can ride a steady going one.
The millionaire was not a millionaire when he started, he was an obscure
clerk in a dry goods store working for wages that you scorn. Reduce your
size to something near the right one and you will see things differently
and take what you can get cheerfully, biding your time to reach higher.
Let your hat fit your head.