New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

negie. Rising as he did from
poor working lad to
leading Industrial position in a
country famous for its great indus
tia enterprises, IT was his gospel,
constantly expressed verbally and in
writing, that a young mans future
depends chiefly upon his own energy
and perseverance. Never during his
lifetime did he see anything in in
dustrial conditions to prevent the
young merchant, the clerk, the mes
ssnger from rising to eventual sue
cess. his own lie bore out his op-
timism, and il is never lacking in his
friendly and shrewd advice.
Back in 1902 he wrote a book,
"The Empire Of Business" published
by Doubleday, Page & Co., in which
.as said:
"These is no service so low and
s..Hpie. neither any so high, in which
the young nan of ability and willing
disposition cannot readily and al
most daily prove himself capable of
greater trust and usefulness, and,
what is equally important, show his
invincible determination to rise.
Some day IN your own department
You VIII be directed to do or say
something which you know will
prove disadvantageous to the inter
est Of the firm. Here is your chance.
Stand up Ike man and say So
Say it boldly, and give your rea-
soas, and thus prove to your en-
poyer that while his thoughts have
been engaged upon other matters you
have been studying during hours
when perhaps he thought you asleep
how TO promote his interests. You
may be right OF you may be wrong,
buJ IL either case you have gained
he first condition of success-you
ave attracted attention.
One false axiom you will often
uear, which wish to guard you
against: Obey orders if you break
owners. Don't you do it. This is
no rule for you to follow. Always
ureak orders to save owners. There
never Was great character who
d. not sometimes smash the rou-
tine regulations and make new ones
for himself. The rule is suitable
only for such as have no aspirations
AID who have not forgotten that
you are destined to be owners and
to make orders and break orders.
You viii never be a partner unless
you know the business of your de-
partmeat far better than the owners
possibly can.
Boss Your boss just as soon as
you can. Try 1t on early. There is
nothing man likes so we'll if he
is the right kind Of boss. If he is
not, ne IS not the man for you to
remain with. Leave him whenever
you can, even at a present sacrifice,
and find one capable of discerning
genus. Cur young partners in Car
negle Brothers won their spurs bv
showing that we did not know half
IS well what was wanted as they
dld. Some Of them have acted upon
occasion with me as if they owned
lne trim and | was but some airy
New Yorker, presuming to advise
upon what knew very little about.
Wen, they are not interfered with
much now. They were the true
bosses, the very men we were look
ing for
Here is the story of Andrew Car
negie's rise in the world, as told by
Andrew Carnegie himself to "The
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune"
twenty years ago:
Having earned my own living for
fifty years and been my own master
for thirty-one, rejoice to look back
upon my start in the world with no
other capital than honest poverty
and q good home. No boy can have
8greaCer incentive for success in life
than these. Sharing the fruits of
my fathers and mothers industry,
raarned in my infancy to respect
ewprk, and longeo 60 oe contributor
TO the common purse We lived in
HDunfermline, thirteen miles from
Edinburgh, Scotland My father,
HWnliam Carnegie, was successful
master weaver, my mother a hard
working housewife, who yet found
Tine to instruct me until | was eight
4 N reading, writing and cipherlng,
tne' equipment that gave me my first
Abetterment.
Wanted to Be Weaver
1t was my first ambition to be Il
weaver like my father, to have four
onis of my own, to employ appren-
sses, to make speeches in the even
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