Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-14
MAXIMSMADE MILLIONS.
AMERICAN MACNATES TELL HOW
THEY HAVE WON FORTUNES,

Russell Sage, C. p. Huntington, Mrs.
Hetty Green and John ID. Rockefeller
Reveal the Rules of Conduct ON
| Which Their Lives Are Based.
The Saturday Evening Post, the
unique and popular paper which Mr..
Curtis, of the Ladies Home Journal,
is now conducting, publishes the fol-
lowing remarkable article made up of
contributions from the leading fnan-
ciers in the United States:
, Formulas Worth Twenty Millions Each.
Russell Sage, the dean of American
financiers, set out in pursuit of his
present 800, 900, 900 as an errand boy
in country grocery store. His
maxims are these:
1. Be temperate and you will be
happy.
2. Plain food, an easy mind and
sound sleep make a man young at
eighty three.
3. Opportunities are disgusted with
men who don't recognize them.
A. Despair is the forerunner of
failure. Next to fat purse is "stiff
upper lip"
5. When man closes his head' he
mustn't complain about the other fell
low taking an advantage. Keep cool
and freeze out the enemy.
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Millionaire Who Never Borrows.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, who
is worth $6,000,000, and who began
h1a I'm al
small store, suggests the following
seven maxims as embracing the essen
tials of successful business career.
l. The dignity of labor is the great
est of all dignities; the genius of work
is the greatest of oil geniuses.
2. Industry, integrity, economy and
promptness are cardinal requisites to
certain and honorable success.
3. Merit is the trade mark of sue
cess; quality the true test of value.
4. Success is not in time, place or
circumstance, but in the man.
5. Credit and partn srships are the
scourge of commercial history and the
bane of commercial experience
6. Beware of the gifts of the Greeks;
they allure that they may destroy:
credit is tempting, but ruin surely
follows in its path.
7. Burn the ledger and learn to say
No; this is best for both buyer and
seller.
Some Tools For Making Millions.
Henry Clews began life as mes
senger boy in an English wooden fac
tory. He is now worth $4,000, 900,
and attributes his rise in life to his
belief in these simple notices:
l. 1t requires other things than am
bition to become millionaire; making
everything count for something is one
of the other things.
2. Sobriety, honesty and industry
are the three graces of q successful
business career.
8. Save without parsimony; spend
without lavishness.
4. Sound health, clear head, wise
economy and work, work, work will
declare big dividends for any one who
looks well after the original invest
ment.
5. Shun wild speculations, and be
satisfied with slow but sure returns
for money invested.
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Work Makes Wealth and Goodness.
Darius o. Mills, financier and
philanthropist, started on his road to
fortune with nothing but good
physique and large determination.
He is now worth $25, 900, 900, and he
has acquired that amount of money by
observing these rules:
l. Work develops all the good there
is in a man; idleness all the evil
therefore work if you would be good
and successful.
2. Sleep eight hours, work twelve,
and pick your recreations with an eve
to their good results.
3. Save one dollar out of every FIVE
you earn. 1t is not alone the mere
saving of money that counts; it is the
intellectual and moral discipline the
saving habit enforces.
4. Be humble, not servile or undig-
nifed, but respectful in the presence
of superior knowledge, position or ex-
perience.
5. Most projects fail owing to poor
poor man at the helm.
6. Success is measured by the good
one does, not by the number of his
millions or the extent of his power.
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Some Practical Pessimisms.
Joseph Downey, one of the wealth
lest contractors in Chicago, takes a
pessimistic view of every business
venture. He says that he is always
expecting the worst to happen, and is
agreeably surprised when the reverse
occurs. To his intimate friends he
often gives these terse bits of advice
l. Never figure what your profits
are going to be.
2. Calculate what your possible
losses will be on venture.
8. Figure what the lowest return
will be in business proposition with
all things unfavorable. If matters
turn out favorably you can stand the
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