THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1913. HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 December 1913, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1913. HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

At a time when a section of the community in New Zealand is endeavouring to solve the problem of how to construct success out of failure, it might not' be out of place to discuss the real elements which contribute to success in private and business undertakings. Speaking with an experience of some years, we are forced to the conclusion that there are two corner-stones to success, viz., knowledge and industry. As an eminent writer once said, "To know how to do things in the best way, and then to go and do them, are really important" things." Of course, every man, no matter how incompetent lie may be or how big a failure he makes of what he undertakes, carries the idea that he knows how to direct a business in the best way. The more ignorant a man .may be, and the less real discernment and business judgment" he may have, the surer he is likely to be of the value of his opinion; but fortunately the world does not need to take a man at his own valuation. The proof of the pudding is the eating, and the proof of a man's judgment and industry is found in the results. To make good, is worth a world of talk. The man who would know the fullest measure of success must not become wedded to.any one system or way of doing things, no .-natter how good it

may be. He should keep an open mind, ho should be on the look-out for improvements; he should be able to see them when they arrive and quick to adapt them to his own business. There is more than one good way to accomplish results. The enterprising business man will try to make his way the best and to keep it so. Persistent effort is also very important. But if a man has not the requisite judgment to enable him to -nark out a winning plan of. operations, all the industry in the world will not keep him long at the head of a business. What avail is it that a man works hard if he does the wrong thing, or the right thing at the wrong time? Hie industry, without common sense to ballast it, will merely be the means of running the business on the rocks the sooner. But intelligently directed industry will accomplish all things. The man who wishes to go to the front and to stay there must know his business better than any other person in the concern with which he is connected. When he has attained his position, he would strive to know more about the business than anyone else doing business on similar lines in his own town. Having accomplished this, it is up to hi-.n to be the authority for a still wider territory. All this means work. But it is worth while means work. But it is worth while to accomplish things. It is worth while to win in the game. The man who makes his work his chief pleasure is really far happier than the devotees of pleasure.