A BUSINESS MAN S GREED

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3509, 8 December 1913, Page 7

A BUSINESS MAN S GREED

RESPECT WORK, EAIPLOYERS,

AND self: Air AY. C. Holman, editor of “Salesmanship,” has formulated a business man’s credd. - It runs: fUL'o respect my work, my employers and myself.' - To be honest and fu; r with my emp!oyers( as I expect my employers to be honest and fair v ith me To think ®f my house with loyalty, .peak of it with praise, and act always as a trustworthy custodian o! ifis goou can e To be a man wnose word carires weight with my house, to be an optimist, not a pessimist-; a pusher, not a sluggard; a motor, not a clog. “To base my expectations of reward on a solid foundation of service rendered; to be willing to pay the price of success In honest effort. To look upon my work as opporunity to he seized with joy and made the most of, and not as painful drudgery to be reluctantly endured. “To remember that success lies within myself, in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination. To expect difficulties, and to force my way through them; to turn hard tixpeipenoe into capital for future struggles.

“To believe in my Tiouseifheart and soul, and aspire to the highest service I can perform for it. To be patiently receptive of just criticism and profit by its teaching. • lo make a study of my business duties; to know my work in every derail lam the ground lip; to mix brains with my efforts, and use system and method in all that I undertake To find time to do every,Vug needful by never letting time find nm doing nothing. To hoard days as a miser hoards cash; to make every hour bring me dividends in specific results accomplished. “To keep my future unmortgaged with debt; to save money as well as earn it; to cut out expensive amusements until I 'can afford them; to steer clear of dissipation and guard my health and body and ' peace of mind as my most precious stock-in-trade. .

“Finally, to take a good grip on the joy of life; to play the fame like a gentleman; to fight against nothing so hard as my own weaknesses, and to endeavor to grow in business eapacity and as a man with the passage of every day of time. This, Is my creed.”