The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-17
o. Wesleyan g ellege on Re
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10 Business.

10 Business.
The following Is an address deliy.
cred III Charles r. Laarioerd before
The students Of the West virgins
ellege Al Buckhannor
SAedpes ilcFnIns March 15a
91oney las ho1pSed me bysasls
ipg me Is Stdress tllis studea body
IlsfdU not Sin nils Iscapse i thinb
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q iIe: Int sSEtiie very excellent
req SIR HAT It IFS the truth. The
size tela SCI fSs him is The RE
atioastFp ot thafRster to ;Bust-
{tE We we're III treat his subject as
you maj .lfailg expect. you woald log
really sppPqse that character would
be defined, and then applied to
business Gtgs III matter Of fact,
we ,itropose tam from the busi-
ness end, "a successful business
does not result from haphazard. en-
terDrlse, but i the result; of years OF
'tahor ard steady growth which cul-
inmates dh what we term success.
All things that are built, must have
a foundation, and no building can
be of greater size or proportion thar
its foundation. In fact. it is always
possible to Judge from the depth Of,
the excavation and width of the
foundation stones, what will be the
height OF the building, for the
higher the building, the deeper viii
be the excavation, and broader the
Foundation. To lay the Foundation
of, a. great and successful business
1T is necessary to go down to bed
rock, and the fundamental princi
pies Oh which any Successful bust
ness must necessarily be built is the
tip that want to give you this
morning. Take the word tip
spell it with capital letters,T / P
emiblazon it upon your Grind! 1t ha
been said that Longfellow and Ten
nyson could take a common piece
paper, write two score words Oh
more upon it, and by that act MAKE
it worth $4,000. Carneele writes
his name upon a piece OF paper, .ant
it Is worth millions, Edison uses
piece OF common wire, and 10! our
voices are carried a thousand miles
II is the use we make OF the com
monest materials that make then
valuable. 1t is our desire to take
that common word tip and make
II stand for more than 1t does now
A zip in the stock market may
mean the gaining of fortune, o
the loss of one, more frequently the
latter, but the tip l give you thl
consists q; the greatest as
Sc you can possibly possess Wit
which to start your business caree'&
and should always remain with you
T stands for Truth, which mus
he the very corner ston
in the foundation OF any successful
business, and its opposite, un;rut
Or deception, APPLIED to business
means speedy ruin. One who
known to lie truthful has immedi
ately acquired the confidence q
those with whom he comes in con
tact, and confidence is a great stonc
in a business foundation. Indeed
in this day and generation, all bus
ness is based upon conidence-m'
trade with this or that man, be2aus'
we have confidence his merchan
disc: we accept a r$ece of pape,
with signature attached in the
form of a check in lieu of money
we travel all over the world with
small piece Of pasteboard commonly
called ticket; We present it to thu
conductor on the train with conf
dence, knowing that it will carry "
to our destination, wherever it ma!
be, for it represents contract be
tween us and the railroad. reat
an interesting article some time age
in one of our magazines on the sub
ject of credit in the mercantile world
and the writer said that the first
question in determining mans
credit was his truthfulness. II he
were known to be truthful, and o!
exemplary habits, his credit was
practically assured. Do YOU see my
point? Truth begets confidence,
and confidence beoets credit. Sc
much for T What Of l?
i stands for industry. What does
the Scripture teach us? Be not
slOthful in business. An industrious
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