MR. LE G’ALLIENNE ON LUCK.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 886, 28 February 1907, Page 21

MR. LE G’ALLIENNE ON LUCK.

Take the great business-builders, the Liptons, the Wanamakers. When one reads of their methods there seems nothing remarkable, or mysterious, or even

novel about them (says Mr. Richard Le Gallienne in the “Reader”). Many clever and industrious men are daily employing the same methods —as far as we can see—without achieving any such substantial success. Wherein lies the difference; Is it mere luck? No, that explanation will not suffice. Your Lip tons and Wanamakers never wait for Luck. No doubt they have their share; but, as one reads the stories of their success, he finds no evidence of any special providence or luck attending them. Such “luck” as they have had seems to have come through the capacity for fearlessly taking opportunity on the instant. They are men of rapidlyworking imaginations, or of great courage ; for imagination and courage are qualifies which one can safely set down as indispensable to any form of success. The part played by imagination in business is but little recognised; yet a moments thought will show how important it is. A business man like J. Pierpont Morgan possesses enough imagination to set up a dozen poets.