BUSINESS LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4

BUSINESS LIFE.

A MILLIONAIRE'S MAXIMS. Hero are a few of Mr Carnegie's maxims, with which his speeches invariably abound:— l ']»p industrious; live within your income;' above all, always think; distribute what you have; don't let your woalth own you, 'itoss your boss as soon as you can; try it oil early. j k 'Xo young man ever lived who has j not had ;i eliam-e. ! *'lt is a great mistake to think tlmt tlie m.ju who works all his time wins the race. 'There is scarcely an instance of a man who Ins made fortune by specula- ■ tiou and kept it, " Don't put all your eggs in one baskop is wrong. I tell you, 'Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'"

SUCCESS IN LIFE. So much has been written on success in life, says Sir William Bull, M.P., t hat it is dilliculty to avoid being prigIgish or platitudinous. My advice to a young man is as follows:—

Do not be content to drift along life's stream.

First, carefully survey your position—your education, character, and abilities. To make them dearer to you write them down and correct them*until you are satisfied thrt they are as accurate as you can makfi them. You will tiiul this a surprisingly useful exercise. Then determine what you will be, and set out carefully the probable steps you will take to attain that end. Write this out also on a chart, and see bow near you can keep to it. Sometimes you will be behind it; it so, do not be discouraged, but try and discover why it is so. Sometimes you will be before it; if so, do not be unduly elated and relax your efforts.

For a man of average ability I would put patience before anything as a watchword to success. Everybody has opportunities, but it is only the patient that are ready to take advantage of them. "Patience eonijucivd'in the Penmsulua war and at W-'.t,»rh-i- ! n 'he 1- ng run the slocpj Jos-j vigilance and patience of Nelson, Vitt, and Wellington were bound to ! wear down the genius of Napoleon.