Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — Secret of Hetty Green's Seccess. [ARTICLE]

Secret of Hetty Green's Seccess.

Hetty Green was recently induced to talk to a writer for the Ladies’ Home Journal of her business methods that have won her sixty millions of dollars or more. The secret of her success is worth knowing: “I don’t believe in speculation as a rule," she says, "and I don’t speculate as much as people; think. When offered so many shares of stock at so much I buy one share and then send.out to see what it will bring. If it’s a good advance 1 buy the rest. If not, I don't. This was my plan when I used to deal in horses. I would get a day's option on a horse, and see what It would bring before buying it. I attribute my success chiefly to the rule of always buying when every one wants to sell, ami selling when every one warns to buy. There's a price on everything I have. When that price is offered 1 sei). I never buy anything just to hold on to it Not much! And I try to steer clear of \\ all street. Any one who hasn’t a whole fortune to back his deals had better do the same. I do everything with all my mind. If there Is a lawsuit on band I go into every detail of it with my lawyer. It’s the same with everything else.”