BUSINESS LIFE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 3

BUSINESS LIFE.

WHERE SUCCESS LIES. It isn't the job that makes success; it's the man.—Smith's Weekly. CHANCE. We must master chance, or chance will be our master.—Nora Chesson, in " Father Felix's Chronicles." USELESS DREAMS. Man was made for progress, and the man who dreams backward is a dead weight upon the universe.—" lota," in "Smoke in the Flame." BE STRAIGHT TO BE SUCCESSFUL. Science yields nothing but confusion to the shifty, devious, and dishonest inquirer. The fundamentals of morality are the very stepping-stones to technical sviccess or professional attainment. KEEP AT IT. However small and petty and heartsickening it may be, some great law is holding' us in our course toward our destiny, some divine purpose is pushing this struggling, blind humanity on. —William Allan White in Collier's. MAKE-BELIEVE POWER. Wine and coffee give us an illusory sense of power; they make us deaf to the warnings of experience, which bid us husband our resources and not expend them to the point of ruin. The alcohol acts like a schoolboy on vacation.—Revue Scientifique. RULES FOR MANAGING MEN. The methods employed to control large bodies of men vary with the nature of the work to be done, but the chief factors leading to successful administration are a good knowledge of human nature, tact,; and a thorough personal knowledge on the part, of the overseers of every detail of the undertaking.—Egbert Watson in Cassier's Magazine. THE NOBILITY OF WORK. I pray you remember there is, if we but search for it, something ennobling in every vocation; in every enterprise which engages the efforts of man. Be assured that, whatever fate is to befall us, nothing so bad can come as to sink into that wretched existence where everything is forgotten but the profit of the hour,1 the food, the raiment, the. handful of silver, the ribbon to wear on the coat.—George Record Peak in Putman's Monthly.

NEGLECT THAT MEANS FAILURE

The artistic profession is overcrowded. Ten men now paint tolerably well for one who painted fifty years ago, and success even for the few successful must be smaller.

Thus the great majority of those who practise the fine arts nrnst inevitably make a very poor living out of them. Yet hoy many artists have only themselves to thank if their talent fails to meet with the practical, success which it deserves, from the neglect of some simple but all-important consideration .— Burlington Magazine.

HAVE A PURPOSE IN LIFE. What is" yonWpurpo'se in life B Now, be straight with yourself on this matter, and ask yourself point blank whether you really have any real purpose. And if you find that you are minus one, then get one—a real, good, definite, worthy purpose—at once. Success in life means the accomplishment of a purpose. It is the first requisite of success. You want to know what'you desire, to be and to do. Don't drift aimlessly through life, <w spread your energies over many things excelling in nothing, like a jack-of-all-trades, who proverbially becomes master ofe none. You musi have a puvposp in life. But purposes, like eggs, unless hatchod into action, will become decayed fmd useless; Therefore think cut a definite, useful purpose, and then carry it out with heart and soul. You must be whole-hearted about'it. The whole man must be in it. If the head pulls one way, and the heart another,' no useful purpose will be served. Concentration of energy is necessary, and that characteristic of genius whi<yh h^s been j described as "the capacity for taking infinite pains." *