Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-21
SUCCESS COMES THROUGH DIFFICULTY.

SUCCESS COMES THROUGH DIFFICULTY.
Emerson says: ..~..
Mature, when she adds difficulty, adds BRAIN
Emersons theory was that most successes are
brought about through opposition as the fucrum That
is generally the Men who do not have to overcome
obstacles are seldom permanently successful AS gold
tried in the fire, do the acceptable come through
the furnace of adversely.
The lesson that should be taught and over
again now is that vino at the head of large
know the road from the start They Travelled the
old route; the route Of hard work. perseverance and
self denial. They lived within their income.
Remember this the income Of some other man is
not yours and you hao you would not know what to
do with it.
~ There is no open door to success. You must make
your own door. Unless you make your own door, you
will not know the door when you come to it.
The men who are at the head of successful bust
today looking for who able to help
themselves They ready to help anyone in their
ploy who has saved of his salary and has it
ready to invest in the business "
A young man in the employ of one of the big firms
of this country last month much disappointed be-
cause he was not promoted to position to which ne
thought he entitled He had been with the firm for
several years. He asked the president of the institution
why it that he had not been given the place for
which he felt he was in line He told that the man
who got the place he wanted had to invest 1000 of his
own money in stock in the institution The young
said:
II can get from my relatives four times that
amount to invest in stock in this business"
The president said: young man, do not want
you to invest your relatives money in my business
while you are working for I talking about
YOUR money. The money your relatives give you is
NOT your money in the sense that mean. The money
that you out Of your salary is your money 1t is
your money because you know where it came from and
you know what you had to do to get it. When you invest
$1,000 of the money that you have saved little at
time you are going to try to make that money make
good How much money have you saved out of the sal
airy have been paying you for the last four and one
half years?"
The young man answered: II have had great
many ", expense oo; uz1o, WIN, ,o,o ro,,
saved?"
mot very much, but am going to-"
The president again asked what is the exact
amount Of the money you have saved out Of the salary
you have received from this company up to date?"
The young man made another evasive reply and
the president said:
49, "You by evasion, answering my question.
Now you disappointed because do not put you in
charge of large department of business when you
not business man enough to answer me point
blank question in figures I asked you how much money
you had saved and you know that you have not saved
cent. You have taken my time evading my question,
when the business way have handled it would have
been tell the exact truth and answered right up that
you have not saved cent. You fine young man in
lots of ways but you can't expect business institutions
to trust you to handle their business when you have
demonstrated that you are not capable OF handling
your own salary When you do demonstrate that then
we ready 10 advance you proportion to the abi
ity you show"
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