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of the situation using your intelligence and then if you take up an occupation, you will have inner satisfaction.
Theodore Roosevelt was once the President of the U.S.A. One day, a journalist came to meet him. The journalist said to the president, "You are the President of the U.S.A. Every day you have to face many problems; and you have to take decisions. Please tell me how many decisions of yours prove to be right”.
Roosevelt never even thought of this question. He thought for a few minutes and said, "I think about twenty-five percent of my decisions prove to be right”.
The journalist was stupefied. He said, “Is twenty-five percent enough?"
Roosevelt said, “The maximum is thirty percent. I do not think that more than thirty percent of my conjectures and decisions are right.”
The journalist became silent. Roosevelt smiled. Then he asked the journalist, "What do you think? How many of your decisions prove to be right?"
What could the journalist say? He could not say that his decisions and conjectures were always right because Roosevelt sat before him.
Roosevelt said, "If you believe that fifty five percent of your conjectures and decisions prove to be right then please take this suggestion from me. You give up journalism and come to the Wall Street (the share market of America is situated there). You carry on share business. Within a short time you can be a multimillionaire, because if fifty five percent of your conjectures prove to be right then there will be yet
ten percent of margin and you will surely become a multimillionaire. Only if you think of the objects, the place, the time and your capacity from a broader point of view, you would have respected their limits. You cannot even imagine all the tendencies and movements that keep moving with every situation. Therefore, even the conjectures and decisions which you
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