Success.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 4 (Supplement)

Success.

It seems as if success were a talent ia itself, dependent, it ia true, on other qualities in a greater or less degree, but having, nevertheless, a separate and distinct individuality. Some people quite wrongfully call this quality "luck;" it is quite unjust, however, for although of course in many instances a fortuitous chain of circumstances may make cr mar a man, as a rule the successful parson generally owes his or her position to some intrinsic merit—to the talent, in short, of "getting on." It is not cleverness only; it is certainly not genius; ib is not even perseverance, necessary as that quality may be, although any or all of these properties may be found in a successful man or woman. It is perhaps the happy faculty of seizing the right moment, of striking when the iron is hot, or that well known attribute which is generally ascribed to the English, but which Americans certainly hay;: their full share of, the courage that "does not know when it is beaten."

I However we may try to discover its component parts, this subtle quality defies analysis, and can never be either taught or learned, and we try ia vain to solve the mystery of why som,e peoplts succeed in tXSE?t;)^si aa£«thers.£ail,