TEN RULES FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 278, 23 April 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

TEN RULES FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.

1. Select tho kind of business that suits your natural inclinations and temperament. Some men arc naturally mechanics, others havo a strong avc-mon to anything like machinery, and so on; one man has a natural taste for one ocaupation in life, and another for another. 2. Let your word ever be sacred. INever promise to do anything without performing it with the most rigid prompt ness. Nothing is moro valuable to a man in business than tho reputation of always doing as he agrees to do, and performing all his engagements, and that to the moment. A strict adherence to this rule gives a man the command of half the spare funds within the range of his acquaintance, and always encircles him with friends who may be depended upon in almost any emergency. 3. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturnod, and never deferring for a einglo hour that which can just as well bo done now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning. t; Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbour remains poor for life becauso he only half doss his business. Energy, industry, and perseverance are indispensable requisites for success in business. 4. Sobriety—use no description of intoxicating drinks. As no man can succeed in business unless he has a brain to enable him to lay his plans, and reason to guide him in their execution, so, no matter how bountifully a man may be blessed with intelligence, if his brain is muddled and his judgment warped by intoxicating drinks, it is impossible for him to carry on bis business successfully. Therefore, as the safest course, abstain from them all. 5. Bo not too visionary.—Many persons are always kept poor because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain success, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, and aio always in trouble. G. Do not scatter your powers.—Eugagc in one kind of business only, and follow it faithfully until you succeed, or till you conclude to abandon it. Remember what a carpenter would tell you : A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clenched. When a man's undivided attention is centred on one object, his mind will continually be suggesting improvements of valuo, which wouid escape him if his brain were occupied by a dozen different subjects at the same time. Many a fortune has slipped through men's fingers by their encaging in too many occupations at oueo. 7. Engage proper persons to assist you. —Never employ a man of bad habitß when one whose habits are good can be found to fill his situation. 8. Avoid extravagance, and always live considsrably within your income. It needs no prophet to tell us that those who live fully up to their means without any thought'of a reven-e in life, can never attain pecuniary independence. 9. Do not depend upon others.—Your success may be dependent upon your own individual exertions. Trust not to tho assistance of friends, but learn that every man must be the architect of his own fortune ; and with proper attention to the foregoing rules, anel such observations as a man of sense will pick up in his own experience, the road to competence will not usually bo found a difficult one. 10. To theso nine valuable rules, given by a pructical man of great experience, wo could add the advice of the wise king : "Acknowledge God in all thy ways, and He will direct thy paths." | Notices.