be insignificant in comparison.

Many young employees, just because they do not get quite as much salary
as they think they should, deliberately throw away all of the other,
larger, grander remuneration possible for them outside of their pay
envelope, for the sake of "getting square" with their employer. They
deliberately adopt a shirking, do-as-little-as-possible policy, and
instead of getting this larger, more important salary, which they can
pay themselves, they prefer the consequent arrested development, and
become small, narrow, inefficient, rutty men and women, with nothing
large or magnanimous, nothing broad, noble, progressive in their
nature. Their leadership faculties, their initiative, their planning
ability, their ingenuity and resourcefulness, inventiveness, and all
the qualities which make the leader, the large, full, complete man,
remain undeveloped. While trying to "get square" with their employer,
by giving him pinched service, they blight their own growth, strangle
their own prospects, and go through life half men instead of full
men--small, narrow, weak men, instead of the strong, grand, complete
men they might be.

I have known employees actually to work harder in scheming, shirking,
trying to keep from working hard in the performance of their duties,
than they would have worked if they had tried to do their best, and had
given the largest, the most liberal service possible to their
employers. The hardest work in the world is that which is grudgingly
done.

Start out with a tacit understanding with yourself that you will be a
man, that you will express in your work the highest thing in you, the
best thing in you. You can not afford to debase or demoralize yourself
by bringing out your mean side, the lowest and most despicable thing in
you.

Never mind whether your employer appreciates the high quality of your
work or not, or thinks more of you for your conscientiousness, you will
certainly think more of yourself after getting the approval of that
still small voice within you which says "right" to the noble act. The
effort always to do your best will enlarge your capacity for doing
things, and will encourage you to push ahead toward larger triumphs.

Everywhere we see people who are haunted by the ghosts of half-finished
jobs, the dishonest work done away back in their youth. These
covered-up defects are always coming back to humiliate them later, to
trip them up, and to bar their progre