A Message to Garcia

Elbert Hubbard

⏱ 7 minPractical philosophy

The President needs to reach a rebel general hidden somewhere in the Cuban jungle; one man takes the letter and simply delivers it, asking nothing. Hubbard's 1899 sermon on initiative that became an industrial creed printed forty million times.

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