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VOL. L. No. 5.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, January 29, 1910
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T is said that Thomas A. Edison once remarked to a young business man who asked the short
cut to promotion, "Never look at the clock."
Now, the employe who ceases to study the problems of business when quitting time
comes stands a slim chance of advancement.
The clerk or salesman who is figuring on one thing only, and that to gel away from the
wareroom or office as quickly as possible, is not the one who will climb up the rungs of the busi-
ness ladder at a very rapid pace.
He will stick pretty closely to the lower rungs and wonder why some of his associates, who
seem no better equipped mentally, have vaulted over him and climbed steadily towards the top.
It is rather annoying to be outdistanced by one's associates and no doubt it causes a good
deal of jealousy and hard feeling, but it may be pretty safe to assume that a young man does not
advance nowadays without good reasons.
The one who moves ahead is the ambitious, thoughtful man—the student—the man who is
seeking, after his working hours are ended, means by which he may absorb valuable information.
First of all, he must have ambition—and ambition to rise in the world is the healthy sign in
a boy.
It is the impulse to rise above mediocrity—to achieve honorable ends.
Ambition is the master mechanic of the dreamer.
When Shakespeare used the phrase "Fling away ambition" he had in mind an unscrupulous
and fallen courtier, but when a young man parts with his ambition—if he really does—his doom
is settled.
Without ambition business plans become slipshod and chaotic.
The man who has no ambition is not rich in character.
It is the ambition to get on which makes a man, and if Edison, who perhaps is more talked
about than any other living American, had not had ambition he would have been to-day a country
telegrapher working away at a few dollars a week.
But no!
His ambition placed him where he is and the young men of to-day might take a leaf from
Edison's life history and remember one thing above all others—that Edison does not believe in
watching the clock to see when quitting times comes.
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