The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-29
HuNTiNGTON's MAxlMs.
The Great Railroad Magnate's Recipe For
Building a Fortune.

Huntington's own story of how he
became rich is interesting. He told it
o few months before he went to Pine
Knot camp, in the Adirondacks, where
he died. Here it is:
Appreciate che value Of to-day.
That's my advice to young men. It
has been my rule through life-I am
nearing the century mark now-not to
look forward to the future-is q
blank. To-day is the all-important
issue.
II have never gone against the tide,
nor worried while my schemes are
maturing. A farmer sows field of
wheat. To worry over it would mere
ly sap his energy. The wheat requires
his attention at the harvest.
when was boy on my fathers
farm in Connecticut I worked hard,
utilizing every moment, for there VAS
plenty to do. But if had any spare
time I did chores for the neighbors.
II nevers wanted for anything I
needed; I always got it. But very
many buy things they do not need.
"When I came to New York, in
1886, 1 had quite sum of money, the
result of my savings, judicious invest
ments and little tradings about the
neighborhood.
oThe great secret Of success is the
laying of nest egg and adding to
your little store, never spending more
than you make and being strickly
economical.
"Again young man should COM
mand what he is worth and always
endeavor to bctter himself. was my
own master since l was sixteen years
old.
II have had hundred thousand
people in my employ in different parts
Of the world at the same time.
''In my mercantile life, / have no.
ticed 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 not do more
than he has to do and does not do that
we'll.
Then there is the man who arrives
ahead Of time and works late if need
be. He takes an interest in mis- work
and is anxious to be advanced.
Il have always lived within my
means and always strived for advance
ment.
Another principle I have constant
ly obeyed is business before pleasure
"Ths chances are as good to-day as
they ever were-they' are even better.
"But I do NOT think that the life Of
one who has accumulated q hundred
millions. more or less, is the least In
spring.
1T daazles, it bewilders the strug-
Cling youth. 1t may inspire him for q
time; but that inspiration aoen wears
of.
'sIt is not possible for ore 70 follow
F! in the eoossssr3 q enuther. EacE.
must work out his own Destiny.
81 have never cared cent what any
human being thought or said about
me or my action, so long as I was sat-
isiied. It is my idea that q man 8
business should be his first thought.
It has always been mine. In. conse-
,quence, I suppose there are a great
many things about which / know-less
than.the average man; but, on the
other hand, I am certain that there is
nobody who knows more about my
own business than I do myself.
I never leave my game to play an
other fellows.
Finally, false pride is an enormous
obstacle. I know young men in New
York who would not carry trunk
along Fifth avenue for all the frontage
they could pass beaouse' they would
be afraid that they right meet some
girl they knew
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