HINTS TO ASSISTANTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2272, 27 October 1891, Page 3

HINTS TO ASSISTANTS.

The men who made this country were not ashameed of toil. The keynote of a business man’s life is found in his power of combating difficulties. Every busines man knows where the harness chafes. Relationships and friendships hinder more than they help in business. Some business men, like vessels, weather the gale, and roll the mast overboard in a calm. If a business man is not sound and true his exposure is only a question of time.

The more intelligent and alert a man is in his calling, other things being equal the higher he will rise.

In a great mercantile house the man who seems to have nothing to do is often the brains of the house.

■The history of the average business man shows how little he is indebted to his relatives for aid or success.

An old merchant says : I have never trusted to anyone when it has been my duty to look after the thing myself. Location has a great deal to do with a man’s success, not only in relation to business itself, but to his own capacity.

Few persons succeed through genius or talent. These are valuable allies, but they are damaging when they usurp the place of solid labor and endurance.

The great mass of men are common men, content to be second or third class. They drift down the current, and pass out of sight, and are remembered no more. “Fillyonr orders,” “Take no more,” “Keep your line,” “Stop buying,” “ Don’t send those goods out,” are sentences which oftentimes indicate commercial ability and ,are gold.—“ The Ironmonger’s Diary and Text Book.”

The common belief of people who know nothing of Scotland is that it is chiefly peopled by “ Macs.” This is an error. The surnames most prevailing in Scotland are as follows: —Smith, the name of one person in every 68; Macdonald, one in 78; Brown, one in 89; Robertson, one in 91; Campbell, one in 62; Thompson, one in 66; Stewart, one in 68, One person in every dozen in Scotland is called by one or other of the above seven .names, and in point of numbers the “Macs” are quite out of it. It is generally believed, however, that there is a great perponderance of them in Heaven.