BUSINESS SUCCESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

BUSINESS SUCCESS.

"Amongst the first essentials to success, m my cpinion," states the veteran Lord Strathcona m the Strand Magazine, "is that of being interested m what you have to do. After that comes diligence, and then system. But unless a young man is . interested, first of all, m his work he cannot expect to succeed m it. I would therefore say if your heart is not m it you are heavily handicapped m the race. As* a young man I did not require any special pleasures or diversions, even if I could have iiir dulged myself m them, because the work I was engaged m afforded me plenty of seo})e, fpr -variety.. To many it might have- seemed a.hjnely and. ., dreary life, practically out off frohi the world,' but I was always 'aiming' tp'doj.my best, and : kept on the gui vive waiting for the opportunity which I knew always comes to the young fellow who does his best. I never^had any- hard and fast routine ..then, and; J ; haye never had since. "I was ready- for any > job ' that turned up,' and this sort of; variety- of' work is q,riite as "good as r : cricket, and football and theatre-going, oiv-anyi of the other forms of , -recreatiop' m which young men nowadays- indulge. Even today, m my year, • I am ready for work at half-past eight every morning, and my. correspondence, official engagements, , and personal .interviews generally keep me employed until late at night. By this kind of alternation of duties, and also by never sallowing myself to be hurried over .anything, I obtain all the recreation I need. Hurry and bustle I haveA always endeavored to avoid." '''••'■"' " '" '.