Thoughts on complete self-confidence
I said to him, “Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves?For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves morecolossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixedstar of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones ofthe Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all inlunatic asylums.” He said mildly that there were a good many men afterall who believed in themselves and who were not in lunatic asylums.”Yes, there are,” I retorted, “and you of all men ought to know them.That drunken poet from whom you would not take a dreary tragedy,he believed in himself. That elderly minister with an epic fromwhom you were hiding in a back room, he believed in himself.If you consulted your business experience instead of your uglyindividualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himselfis one of…