MAXIMS OF SUCCESS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

MAXIMS OF SUCCESS.

GREAT RAILWAY BUILDERS BUSINESS POINTERS.

In the course of a sketch of the late Sir William Van Home, the builder of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which appears in a recent 'Cornhill,' the following sayings of that colossal worker are recorded: —

"Sleep is a habit, and it is rather a -bad habit, like eating." He himself wotdd frequently, under pressure of work, do without steep for many nights.

"We are all born lazy. Some of 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 T was ten years old and split logs I have only enjoyed/' "I never believe in taking long over anything, or in making great preparations for work, and when I hear of studios and north lights and the impossibility of working with this thing or with that, I always feel either that a a man who talks thus is a. humbug or be does not know his job." "Anyone can be an artist who will just go ahead and paint a picture every da v."

"Anyone can do anything if he begins early eonugh." "The best thing a boy can do is to ■i>egin to collect. Let him collect something—l don't care what it is—and you will find he begins to notice, and from noticing he begins to classify and ar« range. Interest develops, and wherever he goes there is nothing connected with his collection about which he is not keenly interested. The real education for a boy is simply a matter )f impressions. These cannot be selected for him, but thev colour the whole of his life."

"The biggest tilings arc a I ways-the easiest to do, because thete is no competition. Men stand around and laugh and say, 'Watch him,' hre.ak his neck.' That leaves one a clear space to work in."

T think things always ought to be lone quickly."