SIR THOMAS LIPTON

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3239, 6 December 1930, Page 7

SIR THOMAS LIPTON

HIS POLICY FOR SUCCESS. "No debt and no credit," is Sir Thomas Lipton's motto. His education was scanty (he left school at 12), and he thinks a university education is a waste of time for a youth who is going in for commerce. "I prefer to have in my business a Jfefoung man who comes straight from school." he told a representative of the Sunday Despatch. "The best education is in the practical experience of life." He scorns the eighthour day. "Success," he says is not for- the man whose hobby it is to leave the office sharp at 6 and enjoy himself in the music halls in the

evening." For many years he reached his desk at 6 in the morning and left at midnight. "People sometimes say to me that there are no opportunities for the young man today to get on in the world as I have done. That's all wrong. Every man can succeed in life if he finds the work that suits him and puts his best into it. , But he must begin at the bottom and learn every rung of the ladder. Money isn't everything. I had only a few pounds in my pocket when I went over to Ireland to make my first venture on the butter market, and I had to pawn my watch to help me finish the deal. Energy, constant industry, a good memory, and a good temper are what a man needs to make his fortune; and these qualities are better than capital."