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THE
MUJIC TIRADE
V O L . LVII. N o . 24 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Dec. 13,1913
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Time Our Most Valuable Asset
T
HE value of time is but little appreciated. How many men have wasted much time in tell-
ing hard luck stories?
Now the present time is the only thing which we can truly call our own, and why
should we waste it in bemoaning our hard luck and taking up the time of others telling
them why we have failed?
Why waste time, our most precious asset, in telling of our failures?
Time should be utilized, not wasted.
Probably most of us have wasted sufficient time which, if properly directed, would have
placed us infinitely ahead of our present position.
Time wasted is money thrown away, for time is money—real money, and money earned in
days past simply means nothing more nor less than the time of days gone by.
Therefore, why should we not plan to use our most valuable asset carefully and wisely.
Every man can stop the waste if he will, or he can permit time, like coin, to fritter through
his hands without getting an equivalent.
We spend time in discussing certain problems—time in discussing certain advances, but that is
not time wasted, because out of such discussions good may come, but there is no particular good
can evolve from discussing failures.
Another Christmas is almost here, and another new year is rapidly approaching.
How much time have we wasted the past year, and how much will we waste the new year?
The march of an army, the movement of a procession may be measured on the dial of a
watch. Even the slow advance of the incoming tide can be told in hours and minutes.
There have been periods in humanity's history when certain forces, suddenly released, have
swept the race forward until it has moved on like a triumphal procession.
I passed once over the track of the glacier that had broken from the grasp of the mountains
that held it for centuries. From creeping at an imperceptible pace, it leaped into the plain below
with a propelling pow r er behind it of a thousand years.
Certain reforms have come as the glacier came that summer day into the Alpine valley.
Nevertheless there are reforms going on all about us—reforms in social and economic condi-
tions of life—reforms and methods of conducting business, and there are plenty of opportunities
for larger and better reforms in almost every line of human endeavor.
How many men have been conducting their business along loose, slipshod, irregular lines?
How many men have been sitting down waiting and wasting time for trade to come their way
—trade which, by the way, never came?
Wasted time again!
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T
W asted time means that men are frittering away their most priceless possession, for time is
the only thing that we can really call our own.
Everything else which we claim to possess may vanish, but the present time is ours—noth-
ing more.
How to improve it?
How to make the most of it in every way? That is a question
surely which should be of interest to every business man, no matter
where located.