Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — MUST BE A LIVE WIRE [ARTICLE]

MUST BE A LIVE WIRE

SUCCESSFUL MAN GETS FATE’S MESSAGE INSTANTLY. He Is Quick to See Each Opportunity, Small or Big, for Advancement and Is Prompt to Act . at Right Time. ———- In die present trend of the times When every movement is regarded by a pendulum of value there are thousands of opportunities going to waste for want of people to take them when they come. As a matter of fact the history of reverses in business might be summed up in two words, “Lost Opportunity." Daily we hear the cry, “If I had only taken hold at the time." But when fate knocked at his door no one opened. In such cases the man who was asleep wakes up to the realization of the chance that has passed. There is no one who has not had the chance to climb higher some time or other. But when the psychological moment arrived he was not alive to the issue. Contrary to the general belief, a man is not confronted once, but many times, with possibilities for better things. To succeed hpmuat be quick to see and prompt to act The live wire In business is ready to receive the message the moment it arrives. In truth, he constitutes the third rail by which the wheels of industry are kept on the move. He .feels every vibration that means advancement for himself; he also recognizes the other fellow who is traveling in the same line. He accords him the square deal that he would be accorded because he realizes to the full what the step-by-step striving for success means. Thus the growing pains of each are v minimized. If the business world were full of wide-awake Individuals we would evolve economic principles of industry heretofore undreamei “ ” ‘

One of the great problems that confronts,the people Is the of waste. Waste is the result pf misdirected energy. That is to say, the, attention has been foedsed in the opposite direction. In a word, the man who might have saved the situation was “napping” at the time when he was needed most Thus it resolves tiself to a pivotal point showing that the man who is caught napping not only injures himself, but causes a sequence of loss. Another momentous matter on the subject is the fact that many men are on the lookout for a big opportunity and overlook the smaller or seeming lesser thing—which of itself is a fallacy. It is the small opportunities seized and realized that have made the big men. They have grasped the little measures and have made them measures to the full. They have appreciated the small profit, and thus the larger has come in accordance. It Is a rare thing for a big success to come knocking at a man’s dopr until he has heard and answered the small one. —Business.