SIR THOMAS LIPTON ON HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 108, 25 April 1908, Page 4

SIR THOMAS LIPTON ON HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE

I lirmly believe—and 1 speak from personal experience—l hat no lad who is setting out to win his way in life can have a better spur to success than an intense desi,-,, to help and please his parents, more particularly his mother, savs Sir Thomas Li|iton. interviewed in tiTe Organiser. If love tor her is the background nf a boy's dreams, and granted that he has ordinary abilities and is willing to work. T consider there is no doubt of his iilliniale success, Ninety out of a hundred young people don't realise that Ihe very best assistance and advice regarding their professions and their future lives must come from their parents, who understand them heller than anyone else oh earth. A youth cannot start too early, especially for a commercial career. i would select his lifteenth year as a very good age for a hid to start out, for by that time he ought to have acquired a solid ground-work of education. | and at night schools he call continue; his studies to any point he wishes. Cerlainly. it is desperately hard work, I but then what is |h, „ im ] „f a victory | that yon have „ot deserved? ] Success is not for Ihe man who.-e j bobby is lo leave tl 1( . office sharp al ' six and enjoy himself at the theatre or music-hall in t veiling: he is one of i the ordinary average, who all pra.li- I