“If I were you, I
would stand for something. I would count.” -- Benjamin E. Mays
In business, the human beings running it are the ultimate
assets not the brands, the equipment or the products. The human beings are the
only resources that are resourceful. They think, they feel, they see and act
according to their feelings. They are the ones who make the products, find the
markets, sell the products and keep the concern going. Without them, there is
no business. They are therefore the most important resources of any business
even though they are not Balance Sheet items.
Stop reading for a while and take an inventory of yourself
then try to place a value on what you are worth as a person. There is no doubt
that you must have placed a very high premium on yourself. Congratulations, you
are absolutely correct in whatever value you have placed on yourself. You are
you because you are unique. There are no other you anywhere in the world. You
have no duplicate. God made it so and no one has been able to fault God’s
intentions successfully. You are an immensely valuable product of God’s
creation and He too must have placed a very high premium on you hence He took
His time to create you. “God never spends His time to make a nobody.” The way
you take yourself, the way you value yourself and the way you apply yourself
are the primary determinants of whatever service you can render to yourself and
mankind. “Self-image is a premise upon which your entire personality and
behavior is built.” If you find yourself so valuable, useful and important, you
have no reasons whatsoever why you can not apply yourself to useful and
valuable purposes for your own benefit and that of mankind. You simply have no
right to be poor if you are this valuable.
