DICTIONARY OF SUCCESS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1545, 2 May 1916, Page 4

DICTIONARY OF SUCCESS

A PREACHMENT. (By Herbert Kaufman.') Time began aliasing to-morrow at the beginning of eternity, and hasn’t overtaken it yet ; so what ehanee do you stand ? Life is a battle royal between poslponers and posthasters. An eneyelopedia isn’t worth a (inker's dam without a, calendar. This is the day to do it. One delayed link stops a whole chain of action. The fastest machine must wait for the slowest cog to turn. Synchronise ! Lse our cluck — it's watching your record. Every •“fuck” tides off a toll of rent —measures ,a depreciation in equipment and charges up a percentage of upending co>(s. A laggard creates waste alt through an organisation. You aren’t important, but your delinquency is. A sprung rail can wreck an express train. Little p-orm-holes waterlog a, great ship. And litt/tle irresponsibilities scuttle powe rf u 1 ,< •on }■ e r;,i s. Sammy, the office boy. loiters on the way, discounts the promptness of his employer and upsets a deal. Carrie, the stenographer, mixes her envelopes and letters, betrays confidential secrets in dangerous quarters, and creates litigation. Hogan, the shipping clerk, misses the last express, and kills a hardwon account. Judson, the book-keeper, postpones his balance-sheet the “boss” can’t keep Ids bank appointment ; a note goes to protest, and the company’s credit goes to pot. Hawkins, the manager, puts off his consultation with the doctor, and is stricken suddenly by a trouble which timeliness would have aborted, leaving Ids affairs in u ruinous mess, AVentworlh, the surgeon, forgets to sterilise Ids instruments, and infer ts the next, patient. Delay is the seed of disaster and death. There can be no efficiency without promptness. Slipshod brilliance scyer did win out —oue reliable man is worth a ■dozen trlders, and succeeds accordingly* There are only two words in the vocabulary of opportunity “how” and “now,’'’