A message to Garcia E-Book

Elbert Hubbard

• Herausgeber: Yousell Reyes
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This short book, although it is old, is still an excellent resource for those who occupy or ambition with a leadership position. And even thou the book focuses on the actions of a man; the principles apply equally, to the ladies.A message to Garcia, written by Elbert Hubbard; has sold tens of millions of copies, and has been translated into several languages; also, it has been adapted for film.

Because this classic was written at the end of the nineteenth century, we took on the task of slightly editing some words or phrases; while still maintaining the essence of the work.

This book was lightly edited and illustrated. All without affecting the essence of the original work.
 

Leseprobe

A Classic of the 19th Century

A MESSAGE TO

GARCIA

Elbert Hubbard

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Copyright © 2019 Yousell Reyes

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EDITOR’S NOTES

This short book, although it is old, is still an excellent resource for those who occupy or ambition with a leadership position. And even thou the book focuses on the actions of a man; the principles apply equally, to the ladies.

A message to Garcia, written by Elbert Hubbard; has sold tens of millions of copies, and has been translated into several languages; also, it has been adapted for film.

Because this classic was written at the end of the nineteenth century, we took on the task of slightly editing some words or phrases; while still maintaining the essence of the work.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITOR’S NOTES

PREFACE

APOLOGIA

A MESSAGE TO GARCIA

CONCLUDING NOTES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

If you work for a man, in Heaven’s name work for him; If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him, think well of him, and stand by him, and stand by the institution, he represents. I think if I worked for someone, I would work for him.

I would not work for him a part of the time, but all of the time. I would give an undivided service, or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must defame, condemn, and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content.

But I beg you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution—not that—but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself. And don’t forget: “I forgot” won’t do in business.

APOLOGIA

This literary trifle, “A Message to Garcia,” was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. It was on the Twenty-second of February (1899), Eighteen Hundred Ninety—nine, Washington’s Birthday, and we were just going to press with the March “Philistine.” The thing leaped hot from my heart, written after a trying day when I had been endeavoring to train some rather delinquent villagers to abjure the comatose state and get radioactive.

The immediate suggestion, though, came from a little argument over the teacups, when my boy Bert suggested that Rowan was the real hero of the Cuban war.

Rowan had gone alone and done the thing; carried the message to Garcia.

It came to me like a flash! Yes, the boy is right, the hero is the man who does his work; who carries the message to Garcia.

I got up from the table and wrote “A Message to Garcia.” I thought so little of it that we ran it in the Magazine without a heading. The edition went out, and soon orders began to come for extra copies of the March “Philistine,” a dozen, fifty, a hundred; and when the American News Company ordered a thousand, I asked one of my helpers which article it was that had stirred up the cosmic dust.

“It’s the stuff about Garcia,” he said.

The next day a telegram came from George H. Daniels, of the New York Central Railroad, saying: “Give price on one hundred thousand Rowan article in pamphlet form Empire State Express advertisement on the back — also how soon can ship.”

I replied giving a price and stated we could supply the pamphlets in two years. Our facilities were small, and a hundred thousand booklets looked like an awful undertaking.

The result was that I gave Mr. Daniels permission to reprint the article in his way.

He issued it in booklet form in editions of half a million. Two or three of these half-million lots were sent out by Mr. Daniels, and also, the article was reprinted in over two hundred magazines and newspapers. Also, it has been translated into all written languages.

At the time Mr. Daniels was distributing the “Message to Garcia,” Prince Hilakoff, Director of Russian Railways, was in this country. He was the guest of the New York Central and made a tour of the country under the personal direction of Mr. Daniels. The Prince saw the little book and was interested in it, more because Mr. Daniels was putting it out in such big numbers, probably, than otherwise.

In any event, when he got home, he had the matter translated into Russian and a copy of the booklet given to every railroad employee in Russia.

Other countries then took it up; and from Russia, it passed into Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, India, and China. During the war between Russia and Japan, every Russian soldier who went to the front was given a copy of the “Message to Garcia.”

The Japanese, finding the booklets in possession of the Russian prisoners, concluded that it must be a good thing, and accordingly translated it into Japanese.