BRAINS AS BUSINESS BUILDERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 419, 4 August 1908, Page 4

BRAINS AS BUSINESS BUILDERS.

The mother and father of Thomas Tipton had a tiny grocery business in Glasgow but were so poor that, when nine years of age, he, in order that he might help them, offered himself at a shop where he saw the notice, “ Boy wanted,” and began his business career as errand boy, at half-a-crowu a week. For six years the brave little fellow toiled away with slow but steady advancement. Then, hearing of the gold which awaited all comers in America, he took passage in the steerage of a crazy old sailing vessel, which lauded him in the New World with nothing but health and courage by way of assets. However, he worked hard, and managed to save sufficient to carry back to Scotland a clear hundred pounds. With that for capital he opened a modest little shop in Glasgow as a provision merchant. A Scotsman once he leaves his native laud does not, as a rule, return, at any rate, until he has made his fortune* Here, however, was one with American experience, who returned to make Scotland herself yield him fortune. He put all his profits into the business, took larger premises, was able to buy on a large scale, and so, whilst selling at moderate prices, could still realise a handsome profit. He bought a huge estate for teagrowing in Ceylon ; he set up a vast business in Chicago to give him command of greater supplies of hams and bacon than tie country could furn Eh. Everything prospered under his energetic and enthusiastic direction. Like Mr Carnegie, he displayed the sovereign gilt of getting about him the right men. And again, like Carnegie, he appreciated a good man when he had got him, and let that man know vvas appreciated.