you fit. And when you are in your places--in stores, shops,
offices or elsewhere, if you want to hold your place you must keep
growing enough to keep it tightly filled.

If you want a greater place, you simply grow greater and they cannot
keep you down. You do not ask for promotion, you compel promotion. You
grow greater, enlarge your dimensions, develop new capabilities, do
more than you are paid to do--overfill your place, and you shake up to
a greater place.

I believe if I were so fortunate or unfortunate as to have a number of
people working for me, I would have a jar in my office filled with
various sizes of objects. When an employee would come into the office
and say, "Isn't it about time I was getting a raise?" I would say, "Go
shake the jar, Charlie. That is the way you get raised. As you grow
greater you won't need to ask to be promoted. You will promote
yourself."

"Good Luck" and "Bad Luck"

This jar tells me so much about luck. I have noted that the lucky
people shake up and the unlucky people shake down. That is, the lucky
people grow great and the unlucky people shrivel and rattle.

Notice as I bump this jar. Two things happened. The little ones shook
down and the big ones shook up. The bump that was bad luck to the
little ones was good luck to the big ones. The same bump was both good
luck and bad luck.

Luck does not depend upon the direction of the bump, but upon the size
of the bump-ee!

The "Lucky" One

So everywhere you look you see the barrel sorting people according to
size. Every business concern can tell you stories like that of the
Chicago house where a number of young ladies worked. Some of them had
been there for a long time. There came a raw, green Dutch girl from the
country. It was her first office experience, and she got the bottom job.

The other girls poked fun at her and played jokes upon her because she
was so green.

Do you remember that green things grow?

"Is not she the limit?" they oft spake one to another. She was. She
made many blunders. But it is now recalled that she never made the same
blunder twice. She learned the lesson with one helping to the bumps.

And she never "got done." When she had finished her work, the work she
had been put at, she would discover something else that ought to be
done, and she would go right on working, contrary to the rules of the
union! Without being told, mind you. She had that rare faculty the
world is bidding