Learn to Say No. Look over the history of the thousands who have failed in business, and you will find in nearly every instance the failure was due to an inability to say No. People come to us under various guises and ask us to do things which in our better judgment we had rather not do, and too many have not the backbone to say No. We are led to invest in mining stocks and to embark in precarious enterprises because we cannot say No. We endorse notes and go security for our friends, not because we want to but because we cannot say No. There is a class of "good fellows" who are after us to join them in physical pleasures, the foregoing of which would be better for us physically, financially and mentally.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Though similar problems confronted both groups, they presented themselves in different guises.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
His wife, much younger than himself, the beautiful Elizabeth, a cousin of the guises, followed her husband's example but saw no reason why she need give up all gaiety and pleasure because of her change of heart.
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed