Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-20
BUSINESS SUCCESS.
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Of every hundred fail. In other pursuits
success is not easily won. IL comes not
for being apostrophised, or sentimentalIy
yearned after. Noconjurer'sw wand evok o.
IT, no tales Of the Arabian Nights chroni-
Gle 1t. 10 IL a hard fact gained inch by
inch, after a toilsome ascent 80 gradual
that when = man has fully gained 10 lie
needs the acclaim of his neighbors to
make him sure Of the fact. The sooner,
then, you can rid yourself of the day
dream, 30 common to young men, that
you are suddenly to become rich by some
stroke of luck, and settle down TO the
conviction that success in business can
only be won by persistent, hardwork, in
! tegrity, economy, pluck and prudence,
the sooner you are prepared to begin the
work Of laying the foundation for solid
structure. Until that con victien is gain
ed yon are frittering away the best years
OF your life and contracting habits that
| will counteract the bost efforts of after
years. You are moro apt to be struck by
lightning than by any luck that will be
ofpermanent benefit to you. Ifyou have
forever parted company with the hope of
becoming suddenly rich--the ignisf fdtuus
that has led many q gifted man to ruin
you are prepared to consider the stepping
stones to.success already enumerated.
PERSISTENT HARD WoEK.-Men who
use only their muscles imagine that men
who depend upon their brains are stran-
gers 10 hard work. Never was there o
greater mistake. Every successful mer-
chant does more real hard work in the
first ten years of his business career than
any farmer or blacksmith ever dreamed
Of Make up your mind to work early
and late IL necessary to Thoroughly mas
ter the details of the business upon which
you propose to enter. The hnbit of per-
sistent, rapid work once formed, and you
have gained momentum that will carry
you satisfactorily through many pinch
in business where less persistent worker
would find it vastly easier to lie down
and fail. 10.
INTRGRITY.-Those who have read our
article on Commercial Honor" publish
ed some weeks since, will know what We
mean by this. Whether it be the result
of business policy, or Christian principle,
or both, it 10 that quality that makes q
man do exactly as be agrees, even in the
smallest things. Awsl known business
man of this city, when in college years
ago, was SO poor that he had to borrow
money to take letter out Of the post
office. Letters in those days were not
prepaid, and one from distance cost
twenty-five cents.) When he borrowed
a sum in this way he always fixed the
time when he was to pay it back, and
when that time came he always did it,
even If he had to borrow it elsewhere for
that very purpose. 1t is needless to say
that even while thus confessedly poor,
he had laid the right foundation for
good credit. Nobody was afraid to trust
him, for he paid exactly when he agreed
to, and in doing SO became as regal as
millionaire. But integrity includes such
an honest regard for the rights of others
that your customers can always rely upon
your giving them the worth of their
money. A. T. Stewart, when q small
retailer, insisted that his clerks should
be more particular to point out def cts
than to recommend goods. There is
world of wisdom in downright honesty
ECoSOMY.-The bootblack who earns
$500 q week. and lives OH $40, has al
ready begun to succeed. The man who
has not backbone enough to keep his
expenses within his income is too pusil-
luminous to merit success. He is bank
rupt before he starts in business. If you
cannot save something out of a small
salary you cannot out ofa large one. Tho
habit of saving must be formed before
any increase of salary can do you any |
good. Ii you cannot live within your
meant on a small salary, a large one will |
only prove curse to you. You think, |
perhaps, if you do not dine at the Maison |
Doree, If you refrain from cigars, bill !
iards, theaters, and operas, you are a
pattern of economy. You are far from !
it. You may be spend-thrift without |
any of these. Ifyour income is small, |
true economy will lop off many things
that seem necessaries. AS nation We |
spend too much money. LIZ is time for |.
US all to get back to the simple habits of
twenty years ago. Then two men that
we now have in mind, rich and success
ful, began as errand ooys at $3.50 week
for the first year with a small increase,
that after seven years of faithful appren-
tieeship, barely brought their wages up |
to 81 a week. a millionaire of Chicago,
and not long since the great dry goods
merchant of Lake street, began by loan
ing his employer smallsums saved from
just such a pttanee as this. At that
time white beaver hats were in vogue
among gentlemen. He aud his brother
managed to make one such hat do for
both. Of course when one went to
church, or an evening party, the other
did not. Two other successful business
mem of this city went about the same
time preparing for college. They room
ed together, and in order to live within
their means boarded themselves. They |
bought milk, butter, meat, corn-nieal and
vegetables at lew prices in those days,
and cooked them in their room to suit
their taste, and lived we'll. How much
do you think it cost thsm? just thirty
seven and half cents week each.-
Think of that, you young men who feel
that you have cheated your epigastrium
if you dine once or twice on that sum-
g No young man of spirit would pinch
in that way,"you exclaim, lite
Not a bit of it. It is unmanly
tolive beyond your means. Ifbare floors
aud the simplest necessities are all your
means will allow, to accept the situation
is evidence ofthe highest type
of manliness, and to do otherwise Is to
be either beggar or scoundrei. We
advocate no stipgy. narrow, sorlid OF
views, but if you wish tn succeed
in business, and maintain your self re-
spect, sthen we say first, last and all the
sine, 6ve toithia y0ur 0lealts.o 90
PLUCK.-A certain amount of dash,
.oliness, courage in the prosecution of
iifticult undertakings is necessary to the
business man. Without this
Iuality he Is forever shivering in uncer-
alinties, and forever allowing to 60 by,
the hest opportunities
There is no enterprise without pluck, but
I must always be attended and held in
PRuDENoE.--By this we mean that
rood judgement which loeks well ON all
ides and steera the vessel that pluck pro-
selsI clear Of rocks, shoals and breakers.
d Ia to be observed that pluck Is usually