BUSINESS LIFE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 2

BUSINESS LIFE.

.SECRET OF SUCCESS

One of the pioneers of the motor omnibus movement, who has been with the London General Omnibus Company since it took up motor omnibuses, and who has largely contributed to its prosperity, re"mark'ed recently:—"l think our success is due to (1) a wise, but bold policy ; (2) a good organisation and a staff who all pulled together to cany it out ; (3) trying everything new that might be an improvement { (4) scrapping mercilessly everything that was wrong or out of date*. \\'e scrapped the horse omnibuses when we had dune with them ; wo scrapped the old "X' type of motor omnibus when the "B" type was perfected, and if any different system of propulsion for the ordinary petrol engine should bo proved to be best, we should scrap every omnibus we have got on the streets as fast as we could replace them."

BUSINESS YOUTHS. A speaker at a business dinner appealed to university men to enter "•business" rather than the overcrowded professions to which they flock. He said, and it was good to hear, that a university training gave a man elasticity of mind, and important quality for the • occupant of high administrative positions. The view of the speaker, right or wrong, is not common in the city, where young men with university training are not always made very welcome. Business men are fond of believing that young men from the Universities come to them ignorant of the meaning of "hard work,'' though 'it frequently jhappens that the young men in question will never again have to work as hard as they have worked during their last year at a university. On the other hand, it is true that city life reveals the valuelessness of the examination system. The scholastic order of progression is as often as not reversed in the city, and business manager, noting this, is by an obvious though superficial train of thought led to believe that university training is a hindrance. The " 'varsity manner," of great assistance to a financier, is of little . use to a man earning jt!80 a year, and may even be a source of irritation. Businesses vary, like professions. There is no reason why more university men should not, with advantage, go into business, but they must be careful to apply for the right posts. Business is not always business.

STRAIGHT SHOTS. The School of Experience gives no engraved diplomas, but one has little trouble identifying" her graduates. The successful-' man was out and on the job long before opportunity came ak nocking. And this same opportunity, by the way, is oft-times disguised as hard work. A gooctjJndian is a dead Indian. But a dead Indian doesn't do much for his country. While remembering that a man's heart is reached by his stomach, don't forget that his dyspepsia is reached in the same riianner. Advice is cheap, miles sone goes to a solicitor for it. He who's ever begging a match is a nuisance, but a lesser nuisance than the woman who's always trying to make one. Optimism is a virtue—if it is not allowed to usurp the place of industry. Everything in Nature is occupied all its time doing something. Nothing is perfectly idle. To be idle or still would mean to he rigid, and nothing in Nature can be rigid, for rigidity would mean the introduction of a foreign element at war wit hall forces.