THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Positions llkqujkeu. "When wo have made a start at something I havq no doubt we shall find all kinds of things will want changing again ; but. after all. that is the < uninou nature of humanity. If we always wait on big problems for somebody to produce a tiling which, like Minerva, will spring from Zeus’ bead, absolutely perfect, we shall wait for ever and achieve nothing. There is not a single technical process ever heard of which began hv being perfect, or bein gftven workable. We have all had to begin with things which wore even unworkable, and have lost money on them, and even sweated blood for years to make them good. Those people. who are always sitting round with what 1 call the ‘No’ complex, whose first instinct is always to say ‘No’ to everything, and to find difficulties and objections to every course you want to pursue are absolutely people who achieve nothing; hut, worse than that, they are the people who hold back the whole progress of countries and industries You want more people with the ‘Yes’ complex.”—The Bt. Hon. Sir Alfred Monel, M.P.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1927, Page 2
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192THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1927, Page 2
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