The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-11
Success, What it is and How to Win 1t.


/. "Piety, to get all and keep all in po-
sition.
2. Patience, to master all details. > t-
8. Perseverance to carry all through"
Ex Governor Dingley, of Maine, also
gives three essential prerequisites to sue
cess:
1. Character.
Q. sIndustry. -,,.-4,..: =.
8. Perseverance" a.. rr;..ss
A prominent Brooklyn manufacturer
gives these five conditions of success:S fH
1. STERLING integrity as Gods steward.
2. ''Strict attention to business. =. Ia
8. "Do what you undertake to do. .ss .
4. "Punctuality. -g- ~
5. Secrecy, 'Don't tell anybody what
you are going to do until you have donei it
or even then"
The secrets of success as given by a sue
cessful New York publisher are: ..7
"Sterling integrity in all things. e1ys
Rigorous adherence to every promise.
deal with every person as if you were
certain you would meet him again-even
though he is only passing stranger.
"Be temperate in body; broaden your
mind and become pure in heart"
A Western editor gives the following
help to success: aera - ar1 i,
early to bed and early to rise; plain
food, good conscience, good humor, honest
work, selfhelp and prayer ffeoa ~
A large leather warehouse in California,
which has achieved large success, attri-
butes it to these five principles: -
1. Personal integrity of its founders and
managers. sg
2. Constantly maintained reliability of
its products ,.iiz ss'- - ---.s'i q
8. prompt payment Of all bills before
noon of collection day.
ing with all men.
8. "Close attention to business and en-
ployment of the best agents.
The.manager of large manufactory in
Connecticut gives the following secrets of
success:
can unbending purpose to succeed.
"Srict integrity and Conscientious fair
ness in all business relations.
"Firmness and affability.
Systematic methods. l..,t
IAN underlying motive to please God"
One of the leading wholesale merchants
of Chicago gives the secrets Of success con-
cisely as:
"Seltreliance and moral responsibility
to Higher Power.n .-s- 10
John Wanamaker's answer gives four
steps to success:
"Close application
Integrity. b-, --.s
Attention 10 details. 5p eifG
Discreet advertising" -salG1
President Andrew d. White, of Cornell,
also gives four:
"Soundness of heart and mind.
"Clear judgment. ...-,-.5 ..... ....i =
Fair knowledge of men. -
aGreat devotion to some one purpose or
study; but with breadth Of visw.'' 49, !
DR.. j. n. Vincent's secret of success i
given in single sentence: -.,..
"An entire surrender of impulse and in.
clination to the demands of Duty, as ex-
pressed and made possible in the life Of
! Christ"
Other secrets of success are the follow
ing: Ambition to excel in whatever un-
dertook." False contentment is worse
than poverty,) "a definite object in life
not drifting" "Habits favorable to bodily
health" "Plain living and high thinking n
"a good stomach" Careful obedience to
orders" early responsibility" (given as
one of his own helps to success, by John
Sherman, who, at fifteen years of age, was
put in charge of an engineering enterprise
involving an expense of $500, ,00o) ..Strici
truthfulness with religion as It's root''
"Carefulness." Honor" "Conscientious
ness" Good company" IA good board,
ing place and the society of modest Chris
tian young women on coming to the city,
Reliability" Courage not only to say
no, but to surmount Obstacles at takes
a live fish to swim up stream" Master
ing all the details of ones business "Con
centration of ones whole attention and
ability on the matter in hand" Qae who
follows two hares catches neither) "Fore
cast" ''Win unlimited credit but use 4
in very limited way" Shave severa
things ahead all the while as stimulus Il
constant effort and that you, may rest by
change of work" One man attributes hi.
success to his promptness-beinga always
ten minutes ahead at his appointments.
How would that do for the business O
religion, also, for instance, on Sunday
morningi Promptness in seizing opportu
uities is yet more important. "Jump Will,
the wave is on the swell" "Now or nev
err mo sooner said than done" "Strik,
while the irons hot" There is a tide il
the affairs of men which, taken at the flood
leads on to fortune"
'He that would not when he may,
When he would shall have Nay.
That is true of religious decisions anS
indecisions as well as in business. Fo
every department of lite we might apprc
priately adopt the motto which Ruskin ha
ever before him, inscribed on a massiv
piece et chalcedony.
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TO-DAY.
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Temperance is recognized in large nun
her of the replies have receiyed as an nj