Excerpt from Concrete Stone Manufacture Failures are a necessary part of success. The failures in the field of concrete products manufacture have at least justified the assertion, that, simple as the industry's pro cesses have seemed, they are of a nature demanding skill, judgment and tho/roughgoing workmanship. To have discovered even so little as this is to have made a begin ning in 'the way of success. Many have gone forward much further; some have turned failure into success and there are very few who have not learned through bitter experience. Those who have paid the most dearly for their knowledge are the most generous in giving it away. They have appreciated that ultimate success is built upon public confidence and that public confidence is won for a product when its per centage of failure is low. They have seen that they can not, in a broad sense, succeed in any way more surely than through the success of others. They are themselves but units in the structure of an industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.