HAPPY B DAY TO CADILLAC AND ALL ITS FINE AUTOMOBILES DURING THE YEARS.. http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motora...founded-henry-leland-date-1902-134344621.html http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=152 His words in a in the Saturday Evening Post in January 1915. "The Penalty of Leadership" stands as one of the greatest ads ever written, and works as well as a manifesto for Leland and anyone who has ever fought for greatness against settling for good enough: In every field of human endeavour, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, i...n music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone -- if he achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surp*** or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountback, long after the big would had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Mul***udes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is ***ailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy -- but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human p***ions -- envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surp***. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains -- the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is ***ailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live -- lives. Henry Leland Founder fo Cadillac Motor Co and Lincoln Motor Co.
Henry Leland was one of the B-E-S-T "Captain's of Industry" of all-time. He WAS Cadillac AND Lincoln...without his initial concepts & input our automotive world would have missed out on two of the most revered, and, iconic brands ever created. Jonnie www.legends.thewwbc.net
This ad is still held as the "gold standard" of the advertising world! I'm also quite amused by the history of the Cadillac logo. The original Mr Cadillac turns out to be somewhat of a rogue & charlatan! http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/Cadillac_crest Happy BD anyhow!
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