THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 94, 9 April 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

One of the r»re gifts of the niind—a I -ill especially valuable lu business altars 13 the "elaborate fatuity.'' it is largely due to the development 01 this ■acuity that we have our captains of industry. .1 mt of dinner-table pleasantry recently called this forcibly to my attention-" ib* conversation was on a game of goll that was about to be played. (hit ei 11 playfully proposed a wager ot two .hilling* on the re-.uK. Another, noted lor bis extensive business plans, said::— "\\ hy stake all that money on the one resultr Let us divide it up and take something on each hole, so there will b« some excitement at every stage of the game, with an extra large amount at (be end for a climax." This instinctive ela'x'r tioii of a sim- | pie idea was so characteristic Of the elaborate bu-incs, plans for which the nun wan noted that his friends caught, as it were, a look behind the scenes of | »i» mentality—a ehie to his greatness. In tracing this clue ihruupht the elabciatel plans of nun and institutions, T have lieen impressed anew with the endless nays in which a simple idea may l-e expanded to »ast proportions. I» is hy this process that the steam in the tea-kettle eventually turns thf countless wheels of industry, and the simple idea of taking printed impressions from wooden blocks finally lieeonwi the preua and the libraries of the world.