New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-26


the best field for youthful enterprise DR.. Depew
thinks that young man has the best chance in a
young community, while Russell Sage attaches
little Importance to environment and thinks that
if young is in big place he had better stay
there. This is my view The secret of success
lies in turning the circumstances which surround
you to the best account Once you learn how to
do this. including the selfdscipline which it brings
about inevitably, you have learned the important
lesson and this lesson perhaps is learned best where
opportunities are feweSt. Driving cattle from the
West over the Allegheny Mountains, in snow-storm
and blizzard, amid untold hardship and suffering
would seem to be poor occupation in which to lay
the basis of fortune. Yet it was here that Daniel
Drew formed that character of determination tenac
ty and resource which made him of the greatest
money kings which Wall Street ever saw.
Once the bedrock of your fortune is laid by
saving and investment, you will be freer to move
if you wish to move, will have shrewder and more
conservative eye for opportunities elsewhere, and
will have experience which will help you to esti-
mate them at their true value and make the most
of them in practice Emerson said-and every
young should read his essay Self Reliance
that place is nothing. In any place young man
can exert his individuality and his most vigorous
exertions for his own interests, and as long as he
respects the rights of others he will be advancing
faster than he knows The best evidence that a
person can have of his ability to do well elsewhere
is to succeed where he is The story is told of ].
P Morgan that he needed man for important
chose a certain young man. and so notified the head
of the department in which the young then
was. But Mr. Blank cannot be spared said the
head of the department. That's exactly why l
want him., said Mr.. Morgan.
The question of a college education in relation to
a business career has been debated much. Speaking
from a business point of view however, it scarcely
can be called a valuable aid. The bases of success
have been stated. They elf-denal and saving
money But these two branches of study not
set down in any college curriculum that ever have
SEEN Those young men who work their way
through college learn them and it is possible that
this is the most valuable knowledge acquired by
them in their whole college course They are the
ones who know what a college education costs, and
consequently they make the most of it Per contra,
the student who learns only to spend, and whose
chief idea is to have good time, is graduated with
but limited knowledge of things as they are, and,
given a good opportunity, probably will fail in it.
It NAV be ten years before his failure to advance
practically in life teaches him the lessons which he
should have learned at the beginning
The generalization of college knowledge as against
knowledge of life and knowledge of oneself and ones
limitations also is factor which 1t takes sometime
to eliminate For the professional man, for the
Young man born to wealth who is destined to public
responsibility which demands broad knowledge and
broad views the college course is necessary and
advisable But for the who has his unalded
way to make practical experience in the formative
years almost always will prove the better school
The most important lessons in life those which
colleges do not teach.
Opportunities come to ALL and come frequently.
The successful men are first, those who recognize
them as SUCH and, secondly, those who take adj
vantage of them. This is the meaning OF the much
used term luck" and the men who complain of
their lack of luck simply lack knowledge OF their