MAXIMS OF SUCCESS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

MAXIMS OF SUCCESS.

There is in the February issue of "C.irnhiH'' an interesting character sketch of Sir William Van Home, that marvellous man who, among other great achiovomnts, built the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was a colossal worker, and a few of hid sayings are here recorded: "Sleep is a habit, and it is rather a bad habit, like oat ng.'' He himself would frequently, under pressure of work, do without sleep tor many nights. "We are all born lazy. Some ot us get impressions which call for our industry; industry leads to facility, and everything becomes easy."

'■ Work ' I never work. I never have worked since I was ten years old and split logs. I have only enjoyed." '*The biggest tilings are always the easiest to do, liccause there in no competition. 3L> n stand around and laugh and say Watch him break Ins neck.' 'i'liat loaves one a clear space to work in." • lu-t .so ! Wo reinenibcr similar maxims from other marvellously successful men; they all smark of the same cynical phihwiphy, but there is always an absence of any reference to the chances the opportunities, the good !u. k if you will, which must at certa n ciitical periods hive come their way.