HOW TO WIN A FORTUNE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO WIN A FORTUNE

— * N ANDREW CARNEGIE'S ADVICE. Ahdrew Carnegie, the great American emperor of commerce, has written a new i book on " The Empire of Business." f The doughty author tackles the biggest | subjects, as if they were bars: of iron, and I he were a sturdy blacksmith. " What J Would Ido with the Tariff if. l Were Czar?" | " How to Win Fortune," " The Bugaboo of 1 Trusts," "The ABC of Money," "Railroads i Past and Present"such are a few of the i topics which Mr. Carnegie talks about in 1 conversational fashion. His proverbs are as 1 numerous as those of Sancho Panza or Josh I Billings. No matter what the subject epii grams flow from his pen as freely as the } ink. a His teaching is the same "gospel of ij wealth" which is to-day most connected with j his name. Be industrious ; live within your j income; above all things think; distribute j what you have made ; don't let your wealth I own you. Such is the gospel of Andrew I Carnegie, or at least a part of it. ' Following are notable extracts from the new. book: — When I was a boy in my teens, in Allegheny City, Col. Anderson, whose memory I must ever revere, who had a few hundred books, gave notice that he would lend these books every Saturday afternoon to boys and young men. You cannot imagine with what anxiety some of us who embraced this opportunity to obtain knowledge looked forward to every Saturday afternoon, when we could get one book exchanged for another, ... It is from personal experience that I feel that there is no human arrangement so powerful for good, there is no benefit that can be bestowed upon a com- ; munity so great, as that/which places within the reach of all the treasures of the world which are stored up in books. Suppose that a fine specimen of ah old deerhound, very successful in his business, should collect untold deer in the park, fatten them up, and then say to his puppies: " Here, boys, I've had a hard time catching these deer. I mean to see you enjoy yourselves. I'm *» used to racing through the woods and hunting that I can't get out of the habit; but you boys just pile into that park and help yourselves." Such a deerhound as that would be scorned by every human father. The human father would say to such a dog: " Mr. Hound, you're simply ruining those puppies. Too much meat and no exercise will give them the mange and seventeen other troubles, and if distemper doesn't kill them they will be, t a knock-kneed, watery-eyed lot of disgraces to you. For heaven's sake keep them down to dog biscuit and work them hard." Many of the leading business men of Pittsburg 'had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. . . . The other day a fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had ever seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure; but then said he, after a pause, "What I should like to see her do is to sweep out a room. . " i It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself, and who do you suppose were my . fellow-sweepers David McCargo, now superintendent of the Allegheny Valley railroad ; Robert Pitcairn, superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad, and Mr. Moreland, city attorney. ' , We all took turns two each morning did the sweeping; and now I remember Davie was i. so proud of his clean white shirt bosom that he used to spread over it an old silk bandana handkerchief which he kept for that purpose, and we other boys thought that he -was putting on airs. [ There is no great fortune to come from salary, however.higlt and the business man pursues fortune. If lie. be wise 'he ' puts all his eggs in one basket and then watches that basket. 'Ifheis a r merchant in coffee ! he attends to coffee; if a merchant in sugar he attends to sugar and lets coffee alone, and only mixes them when he drinks his coffee with sugar in it. V I • _ carnegie's proverbs.-.,,; ", There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by. speculation and kept Never indorse. Always break orders to save owners. Boss your boss just as soon as you can; try it on early, i" >'; <;-••<•:;. •.:,•',-- - No young man ever lived who has not a ■ chance. ■ ■ ■ ~ •■ :-, , t , _~-, ; There is always a boom in. brains. A basketful of bonds is the heaviest basket ' a young man ever had to carry. I \ - Let no man know* more of your specialty than you do yourself. - It is a great mistake to think that the man who works all the time wins in the race. ' ' , " ,