“Success, is a matter of cool decisions, without
constant wavering and changing of the mind, acute
observation, initiative, and unremitting attention to
a vast number of petty details.”
The above statement would appear to be a sure-fire
recipe for material success in a very large number of
situations.
As it happens, it is a formula evolved from the
experience of Campbell Rogers, an expert in poultry
keeping of international repute. But this
unswerving devotion to taxing minutiae is not all
that he advocates. He begins his now famous book,
Profitable Poultry Keeping in India and the East (D.B.
Taraporevala Sons & Co., Bombay, 1959) with the
notion that success in large scale poultry-farming is
largely dependent upon one’s temperament. Just as
the successful poultry-man must give his attention
to the habits and requirements of his birds, so also
must the social being taken into account the
inclinations and compulsions of others and show
his willingness to make concessions to them in the
interests of maintaining the happiness and
tranquillity of society. Success in life is not just a
matter of keeping one’s nose to the grindstone and
taking correct decisions about financial matters, but
of understanding one’s fellowmen and according
them the kindness and respect which one would
wish to have oneself.
Ref - The Moral Vision
- by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
