How to Become a Millionaire.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1797, 26 August 1902, Page 2

How to Become a Millionaire.

After what, then, must the youth aspire who would rival Mr Carnegie 1 He must be alert, pushing, and impers tineat, “ Boss your boss just as soon as you can , try it on early.” Above ail, you must attract attention. Plague your employer with advice. “ You may bp right or you may be wroug ; but iu either case you have gained the first condition of success—you have at'racted attention.” In other words, you need know nothing ; your interference may be wholly unjustified ; but you have interfered, and that is the essence of success. Thf next beat thing after pushing yourself is to amass money. “ Begin io save almost as soon as you \ou begin to earn.” And why 1 “ Because capitalists trust the saving young man." So the argument revolves io a vicious circle. Get money that you may bamboozle the capitalist. Bamboozle the capitalist that you may get more money. But there are other rules which must be obeyed ; for instance, you must escape Irom the salaried class as soon as you can. So iong as you accept a salary you are meiely paid for what you do. Having bossed your boss with sufficient effrontery, become a boss yourself, and then your coffers will £L«I of toemselves, and you will grow into that saint of modern limes—a millionaire. Of course, some sacrifice is necessary to attain the great end. You must not permit yourself to oe w ell educated. If you have the misfortune to be a " college-made mao” you have not much chance of victory. ‘College graduates will usually be found uuuer salaries, trusted suboidinates, nod that, as any one can see, is a contempiible career. If you ha?e wasted your time at a university you “ have little chance against the boy who swept the office.” Mr Carnegie has known “ few young men inteuded (or business who were not injured by a collegiate education.” It was this knowledge, no doub 1 , which persuaded him to attempt to tree the universities of Scotland.— From u Musings without Method,” in «■ Blackwood's Magazine.”