WHAT MAKES SUCCESS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3146, 19 March 1879, Page 2

WHAT MAKES SUCCESS.

In business life two things are essential to success: First, sound judgment; second ~ activity. In all departments we find a greater deficiency 'in judgment thaa other requisites. Long familiarity in a giren depaftment does not'ofCOTiariljr produce it, though this will undoubtedly aid and strengthen it , Only by reliance on one's self, and feeling individually responsible for the results of action founded on one's efforts, can the fact be established of Rood or bad judgment. Special talent.. will not furnish it, for a man who may i have capacity for acquiring information, may be able to enter into learned discussion on supply or demand, may have vast knowledge of productions, their sources of supply and their various uses, and still lack the ability to apply to practical and everyday use the benefits of such informatioc. : .; •■ - f .- , ... ; , r ■..,,.. T„,r „ So also one may become familiar with 1 all the details of business through long experience in the service of others, and as a servant, or in an executive capacity, , make himself invaluable without ever realising the responsibility attached ,to individual discretion or judgment. In this belief we find an answer to the oft- ; repeated inquiry why so large a portion of business men are unsuccessful;, to claim that so many fail to meet fair sue. cess through force of adverse circumstances, instead of permitting circumstances to control them. Men who have the capacity to comprehend the whole question presented to them, to properly weigh not only the side of success but of failure, and who understand the import- : ance of right thinking and the full penalty of mistake, are the ones who succeed, and whether they get credit for h»Ting good,, judgment or not, they certainly eiero^f it.—'Scientific American. '^^ Ww.