“To make ideas your own you have to grapple with them.”

From the Modern Business Course of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.

1944 Edition Guidebook

Bonus quote: “Reading in itself is worth little unless you get ideas from it that broaden your viewpoint or that can be put to some practical use.”

The Modern Business Course was a correspondence learning program sold in the USA and the UK from the 1909 to the 1980’s. The small books on topics like Credit and Collections and Factory Management were written by retired professors from leading universities. The project was lead by Joseph French Johnson