While taking my boat down the inland waterway to Florida a few weeks ago, I decided to

tie up at Georgetown, South Carolina, Nike Air Jordan Shoes for the night and visit with

an old friend. As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my binoculars standing

there awaiting us. Tall and straight as an arrow he stood, facing a cold, penetrating

wind—truly a picture of a sturdy man, even though his next birthday will make him

eighty-two. Yes, the man was our elder statesman, Bernard Baruch.

He loaded us into his station wagon and we were off to his famous Hobcaw Barony for dinner.

We sat and talked in the great living room where many notables and statesmen, including

Roosevelt and Churchill, have sat and taken their cues. In his eighty-second year, still

a human dynamo, Mr. Baruch talks not of the past but of present problems and the future,

deploring our ignorance of history, cheap jordan shoes economics, and psychology. His

only reference to the past was to tell me, with a wonderful sparkle in his eye, that

he was only able to get eight quail out of the ten shots the day before. What is the

secret of this great man’s value to the world at eighty-one? The answer is his insatiable

desire to keep being productive.

Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest

effort and, having gained it, to learn how to use it properly. Recently I walked into

the locker room of a rather well-known golf club after finishing a round. It was in the

late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes. Michael Jordan Shoes,But

a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly

and drinking more than was good for them. These same men can be found there day after

day and, strangely enough, each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth,

successful in business and respected in the community. If material

prosperity were the chief requisite for happiness, then each one should have been happy. Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing, else there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through Scotch and soda. They knew, each one of them, cheap gucci shoes  that their productivity had ceased. When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man.

What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found

it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing

through my Bible. The words were few, cheap jordan but they became indelibly impressed on my mind:

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”

To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections. In fact, the battle

of life, of existence, is a challenge to  everyone.  The immortal words of St. Paul, too,

have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want

to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have

kept the faith.