The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-19
HOW TO GET ON IN THE WORLD
Pointers Given by the Late Coils P
Huntington.


Appreciate the value of today" he
said. That's my advice to young men.
1t has been my rule through life-I am
nearing the century mark now-not to
look forward, for the future is a blank.
Today is the all-important issue.
L have never gone against the tide,
nor worried while my schemes were
maturing. farmer sows a field of
wheat. To worry over it would merely
sap his energy. The wheat requires his
attention at the harvest. When L was
boy on my fathers farm in Connec-
ticut, l worked hard, utilizing every
moment, for there was plenty to do
But if l had any spare time l did chores
for the neighbors. 1 picked apples or
did anything that added to my savings
/ never wanted for anything L needed;
L always got it. But very many buy
things they do not need When 1 came
to New York. in 1886. 1 had quite a sum
of money-the result of my savings
judicious investments and little trad
ings about the neighborhood.
The great secret of success is laying
by nest egg and adding to your little
store, never spending more than you
make and being strictly economical.
Again, a young man should command
what he is worth and always endeavor
to better himself.
'I have had a hundred thousand peo-
pie in my employ in different parts of
the world at the same time In my
mercantile life 1 have noticed the man
who arrives at his post on time and not
one minute later. and who leaves on
the minute and not one second later.
He does rot do more than he has to do
and doesn't do that well. Then there
/ is the man who arrives ahead of time
and works late if need be. The latter
takes an interest in his work and is
anxious TO be advanced I have always
lived within my means, and always
strove for advancement Another
principle l have constantly obeyed is:
Business before pleasure The chances
are as good today as they ever We're
they are even better. But L do not
think the life Of one who has accumu
lated a hundred millions, more or less
is in the least inspiring. 1t dazzles; i
bewilders the struggling youth. 1t may
inspire him for a time, but that inspir
alton soon wears off. It is not possible
for one to follow in the footsteps of an
other Each must work out his owl
destiny.
"a young man does not want to both
Ter over what rumor says about him.
have never cared a cent what any hu
| man being thought or said about me o
my action so long as | was satisfied
, 1t is my idea that a mans bushes
!, should be his first thought. 1t has al
: ways been mine. In consequence sup
| pose there are a great many thing
f, about which l know less than the aver
age man. but on the other hand L ar
very certain that there is nobody VIII
; knows more about my own bushes
than L do myself. 1 never leave m
game to play another fellows. A grea
deal of sorrow has been caused by me
) who insisted on meddling with gam
D about which they knew nothing.
l Finally false pride is an enormou
z obstacle. I know young men in Ne'
York city who would not carry trun
7 along Fifth avenue for all the frontag
q they could pass because they would b
4 afraid that they might meet some gil
that they knew"