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Fifth
Avenue has received numerous awards over the years, and here
are a few examples. It is nice to know something about the
company you do business with and to know they are willing
to give back to the community and help other local businesses
to grow and prosper.
And here are some notes of praise!
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In
every field of human endeavor, 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, in 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 is merely mediocre,
he will be left severely alone. If he achieve a masterpiece
it will set a million tongues awagging. Jealousy
does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist
who produces
a common-place painting. Whatsoever you write, or
paint, or play, or sing, or build; no one will strive
to surpass
or to slander you unless your work be stamped with
the seal of genius. |
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1997 Fifth Avenue Antique Auto Parts received a "Moto
Award" for the design and content of the "Alternator
Gazette" Brochure/Catalog.
Among the entrants were brochures and catalogs presented
from companies around the world including General Motors
and Ford public relations/marketing departments. Fifth
Avenue had the only two-color brochure entered. The
Gazette captured the top award. The "Moto
Award" is
the highest award given by The International Motor
Press Association. |
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1998 Fifth Avenue Antique Auto Parts was presented
an "Award of Merit" from the Kansas Department
of Commerce and Housing for "Outstanding Marketing" of
a Kansas product. Fifth Avenue Antique Auto
Parts,
was nominated by Fred Rice Director of the Small
Business Development Center at Kansas State University. Fifth Avenue Antique Auto Parts was often used as
a business model, by the Kansas State University,
Small Business Development Center as an example of
a successful Kansas Company.
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Long
after a great 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 mountebank,
long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest
artistic genius. Multitudes 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 assailed 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 the human passions
of envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to
surpass. 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 assailed, and each holds his laurels through the
ages.
That which is great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial.
That which deserves to live, Lives.
© Cadillac
Motor Car Division. |
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