the notorious Mr, Barnum in his undeniably "Let your pledged word be oxerd," keys shrewd rules for success." " Whatever you do, do with all your might.... Ambition, encigy, industry, perseverance are indispens ably requisite for success in business. Do not scatter your powers, but engage in one ind of business, and stick to it, Do not depend on others. Your success must depend your own individual exertions," and #0 on. Take the first hundred "successful men of business" to be found in the City, and the probability is that not ten of that hundred will even approximate to the standard here set up, The test of a successful man in the commercial world is of course te wealth he manages to accumulate, and nothing can be Boro evident than that la business them ing of money is often the result of veither industry, nor energy, nor perseverance, nor scrupulous adherence to pledges given, nor to any other of the numerous virtues with which a firet-rate mau of business ought to be armed from head to foot, according to all writers, anoint as well as modera, Anyone with a fair knowledge of the world and its business men would find no difficulty in bringing f plenty of instances which seem to give to all the old time-honoured ease and on for ten minutes, but who neverthe thrive and grow rich; while the prompt ering hardworking, accurate jes poor, to make out the secret of success or failure in any hi career it to boar in mind that Tuoke more potent than a whole armoury of for all the purposes of money-making, man whom fortune favours wi monopoly of the sale of with the control of a mark po Dotter than that of all competitors, or with a nome to conjure with, may laugh and grow fat, and lo virtues' sud energy and promptitu the teed of them, born to the can figaro not inger be Many a than who site in a w pointed city counting-house with his bell him with which to summon ex) to decide knotty or diet ive force, tact, or acuteness, gated to the rear. A vast who pass for good men of horlpteyten) who act credit-lied by thi tials are not to be discredited in the mind of a critical observer, and we learn to look b hind them for the men who indispensable quality Some men—to parody a fam: are of duck good fortun: the effect of ables them to which would ruin I dividuals, or because they at in a position to command the services of hose who direct them, Some Wwe good business ability but seem doomed to suffer—
The lings and arrows of outrageous fortune, They sink or swim as fate will have it, or their own energy may be able to determine, Other men one sometimes meets with in eta who seem to have neither luck nor lity, and always remain at low water; while others, again, apparently have both always at command. Fortuue invariably seems to befriend them, and they are dowed with just the faculties to enable them to take full advantage of her complaisance. They are the mea who, as the Yankees are fond of expressing it, "'lick creation "—become millionaires and merchant princes, snd when they die often leave behind them tome admiring biographer, who manages to and fallacious ill ere the power of story an altogether exaggerated
human effort, of ''self-help," and the force of character—the value of good business qualifications, that is to say. In pronouncing on business capacity a" indicated by ents, it is necessary to take all these possible combinations of faculty and fortune or misfortune into account. Fortuitous circumstances have much te do with success or failure in business, and accident often pi in " position i powers of his own would a conducted him. A. superficial observation of the business world discovers much that is calealated to discredit the aphorisms snd maxima which past generations have handed down to us. A closer scruti automaton at the head present no very impressive illustration of the importance of concentration, of energy, of punctuality, of promptitude, of self-reliance and 20 on, bat if look to those behind im, upon' whom the actual working of the concern devolves, we be sure to find the time-honoured commercial virtues pretty strongly represented, Entire devotion, deter-ined effort, ready ation, accuracy, may be match for Fortune in her most' cantankarous moods, but all other things being equal, the man who cannot command these characteristics will have, no chance in com. petition with the one who can, amped to the conclusion that the captain had tampered with the telegraph lamp; 80 knocked the captain down, and the captain went below and entered in the log that the pilot was drank,.At the inquiry afterwards, held at Greenwich, the helmsman swore that he tar. boarded, Vat no on had the sense in crass:
nation to ask him what did he starboard, head, or did he starboard the ship' similarly, in the collision between the Alberta and the Afistletoe, the quartermaster of the Alberta gave, the following evidence;—"* The order was given by, the word of mouth, the usual custom is by motion" (the order,""atarboard", by. word of mouth implying to go to the board" by motion to xo to the rig) one asked hi regard to thi ast Jun nip. (I think the Princess Alice), and I noticed that when thi ted (indication of the finger) tha went in the same direction ate, I that when the captain pointed, week afterwards, from Rims.
thip's head wont in. contrary direction; expressed my great 0 at this, and was told that the practice at aca and in the river was different, wavered in their finding that the cance of the collision of their ironclads wat " mistake
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