A BUSINESS MIAN'S CREED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1943, 29 December 1913, Page 8

A BUSINESS MIAN'S CREED.

RESPECT WORK, EMPLOYERS, AND SELF.

Mr. W. 0. Holrnan, editor of "Salesmanship," has formulated a business man's creed. It runs:—

"To respect my work, my employers, and myself. To be honest and fair with my employers, as I expect my employers to be honest and fair with. me. To think of my house with loyalty, speak of it with praise, and act always as a trustworthy custodian of its good name. To be a man whoso word carries weight with my house, to bo an optimist, not a pessimist; a pusher, not a sluggard; a motor, not a clog. "To base my . expectations of work on a solid foundation of scrvico rendered ; to bo willing to pay the price of success in honest effort. To look upon my work as opportunity, to be seized with joy and made the most of, and not as painful drudgery to be reluctantly ondured.

"To remember that success lies within myself, in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination. To expect difficulties, and force my way through tliera';. to turn hard experience into capital for future struggles.

"To believe in my house heart snd sou), and aspire to the highest Bcrvico I can p'erform for it. To .be patiently receptive of just criticism and profit by its teaching. "To make a study of my lasiness duties; to know my work in every detail from -the ground up; to mix brains with my efforts, ami uso system and method in all that 1 undertake. To find time to do everything needful by novel - letting time "find -me do nothiug. To hoard days as a miser hoards ci-sh; to make every hour bring me dividends in specific results accomplished. * "To keep my future unmortgaged with debt; to save money as veil as earn it; to cut out expensive amusements until I can afford them; to steer clear of dissipation and guard my health and body aud peace of mind as my nic6t precious stock-in-trade. '

"Finally, to take a good grip on the joy of lifo; t-o play tho game like a gentleman; to fight against nothing so hard as my own weaknesses, and to endeavour to'grow in business capacity, and as a man with tho passago of every day of time. This is my creed."