SECRET OF SUCCESS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 520, 6 April 1920, Page 2

SECRET OF SUCCESS

JOY IN WORK. "Let me advise you to find joy in your work, or, failing that, seek some new work in which you can find joy. A man may make a fortune in any line of honest only when he finds joy in his There never was a rich man not find joy in the labour that nHle him rich. When the joy runs out of the doing, the profits run with it. • "All of us remember the story of Tom Sawyer, created by the immortal Mark Twain. Remember how l<>m hated the job of whitewashing the fence? The boy was a boi n promoter. He painted the joy of whitewashing so vividly to hi; companions ,that they paid him in pennies, marbles, and tops f<?r the pleasure of wielding the Jbfush. They found fun in the task, were willing to pay for doing it. Never in a million years would Tom Sawyer have made a good whitewash artist. We don't know what happened to him after he was twenty-one, but it is a good guess that he promoted a railroad or two. "Joy in doing? Fun out business or profession? When abactor has a day off, does he spend it in the country? Does he go fishing? Does he hie himself to the golf course? Not if there is a theatre in town.

"Edison works eighteen hours i day in his laboratory. He puts in his play time and his work time in the same room. "Pleasure in work? What does the copy-reader or editor do with his play hours? Eighty per cent, of them are spent in slippered feet with a book under his nose. He robs his sleeping time to *njoy the work of others in his own line. Strike Out for Yourself.

"Some men have made a million by following other men. Most fortunes have been made by charting a new course. The doers are the men who value precedent because it tells them what not to do. The doers believe that 'precedent is something to be broken,' not preserved. The arch enemy of progress is precedent." —Life.