BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15249, 12 March 1913, Page 11

BUSINESS LIFE.

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. Wht will you keep caring for what the world says?. Try, oh, try, to be no longer a slave to it.' You can have little idea of the comfort of freedom from it—it is bliss. All this caring for what people say is from pride. Hoist your flag and abide by it. In an infinitely short space of time all secrets will be divulged. Therefore," if you are misjudged, why trouble to put yourself right? You have no idea what a great deal of trouble it will save you. General Gobdon,. V- : — . COLOSSAL FIGURES. Surprising figures as to the money made by New York banking concerns were given before the committee investigating the alleged money trust by Mr. G. F. Baker, a partner-in the firm of Mr. Pierpont Morgan, and chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of New York. He stated that the capital of the First National Bank since its foundation 30 years ago had increased from £100,000 to £2,000,000, and in addition over £2,000,000 had been paid to shareholders in dividends. Although Mr. Baker denied that any money trust, ruled the financial market, his testimony brought out the fact that the great financial army of Mr. Morgan and his 12 partners, 30 directors of the National City Bank of New York, and 15 directors of the First National Bank, are more or less allied, and presumably work in concert. • . ---- •. EDUCATION AND SUCCESS. Most assuredly, in this age of the world, education mu3t be the underlying foundation for the .future success of either a young man or woman. They should determine that no sacrifice is too great, no struggle too hard, which will give them thorough education. The higher the education the better the chances in life will be. The uneducated youth is handicapped to-day; ten years from how he will be hopelessly so, for each passing year will enhance the value of education. If money is the object, cultivated brains command money; without them success in the professions is an impossibility, and there is no avocation which is not helped by them. For this reason the importance of an education as a stepping-stone to success can scarcely bo overestimated.——Sir Wilfrid L»urier. More than half those who fail do so because they try to imitate somebody else who has succeeded. The man whose life is intelligently ordered is always preparing himself for the highest demands of his work; he is not only doing that work with adequate skill from day to day, but he is always fitting himself, in advance for more exacting and - difficult tasks. ; ' Success in life has for its foundation the development of character. If there is lack of character there can be no permanent success. Faith and purpose constitute the motivepower of life. There is nothing that a strong faith and an unflinching purpose may not accomplish. If we live wisely and well, don't eat too much or too little, and go to bed with an untired brain, we won't dream. The brain that dreams tires the body, and very often sends the mind on a stupid errand. Everything costs. . There is a law of exchange that rules in every sphere of life. It is this : "to get you must give." It rules in the business world, it rules m the intellectual world, it holds true in the spiritual realm. The day a boy feels that his work is worth more than he is, that day the bpy ; " '/" / J