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VOL. LIV. No. 18.
REVIEW
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, May 4,1912
Enthusiasm—System
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Perseverance
NTHUSIASM, system and perseverance are necessary essentials contributing to business success.
Without energy, accomplishment—results of the right kind are lacking, for no business can
thrive long without being properly energized by aggressive and resourceful management.
The day of business indifference is past, and any house without a forceful policy is pretty apt
to strike the shoals and stay there.
System is an absolute necessity. No great business can be conducted without regularity and system
being in vogue in every department.
System can of course be overdone. There may be a system too elaborate—too expensive and too com-
plicated to work out properly, but a good common sense system is an absolute essential in any business
enterprise, no matter how small.
Perseverance, too, is greatly needed, for a great many people are easily discouraged when they fail to
accomplish their heart's desire quickly.
They become discouraged, and they lack the necessary perseverance to achieve lasting success.
Simply because things do not work out immediately to their liking they fail to stick to habits of per-
severance-—hence do not acquire even a modicum of success.
Energy—system and perseverance—they are the cardinal principles—principles which should always
be before every business man, and they are principles which have been adhered to by all of the great men of
history.
.They were the cardinal principles of Napoleon's success, and when he ignored system at Waterloo he
lost, for had he systematically disposed of his forces so as to have won Huguemont, the border lines of Euro-
pean countries would be somewhat changed to-day. That-was the only bit of territory that he was unable
to win.
It is true that a man who possesses all of the qualities of enthusiasm, system and perseverance may
sometimes make mistakes, but one thing is pretty certain—he will not frequently fail and he will not al-
ways remain at the foot of the business class; but a business without a fixed policy—a system—one without
the exhibition of perseverance on the part of those who are associated with it will never win out in a great
degree in this hustling age of ours.
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What was all right years ago is not necessarily all right to-day.
The stage coach was good enough in its day, but it would not compare very favorably with the 20th
century express of our time.
With the changing of times and the consequent changing of conditions men must change with them,
else they will strike upon some icebergs of disaster and go plunging downward, leaving scarcely a ripple
upon the surface of the business world which they failed to adorn.
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