Music Trade Review
Issue: 1908 Vol. 47 N. 14 - Page 11
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THE
About
Going
to Seed
and
Rust.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The business world is full of men whose executive
powers have gone to seed without their dreaming of
the change that was gradually taking place in them.
The business world is full of men who have gotten
into a rut from which they refuse to be extricated.
The business world is full of dreamers—men who
are fond of building fanciful theories and trusting to
luck to do the rest.
The business world is full of men who are resting
in fancied security upon past laurels.
The business world is full of men who believe
because certain principles were correct years ago they
will win success to-day.
Are these the men who are winning in the scramble
for trade to-day? I rather think not. If a great bulk
of business comes to you voluntarily, you are certainly
to be congratulated, for you are in truth a magnet of
splendid proportions. But to my mind it requires some-
thing besides a lovely theory and a strong imagination
to win out in these times.
It requires a man who has courage and who is not
afraid to back his belief by risking something.
It takes a positive man to win his spurs now-a-
days and there is nothing in life that is worth the
winning that is not worth fighting for.
If trade is worth the winning it is not merely
worth the going at it—but it is worth going at it with
a vim and determination.
It is worth fighting for now—not next week or
next year, but now. Are you fighting or are you
just marking time ?
It was Napoleon who said,—"Every hour of lost
time is a chance of future misfortune/' and how many
business men are losing valuable hours through in-
activity !
Trade is not of the best. Good business is hard
to get, but the only way to get it is by hard, con-
centrative, over-time work, and what man is there
who is successful who has limited his work to a fixed
number of hours per diem ?
I don't know, do you ? See the point—rest is rust.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL.
11
THE
About
Going
to Seed
and
Rust.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
The business world is full of men whose executive
powers have gone to seed without their dreaming of
the change that was gradually taking place in them.
The business world is full of men who have gotten
into a rut from which they refuse to be extricated.
The business world is full of dreamers—men who
are fond of building fanciful theories and trusting to
luck to do the rest.
The business world is full of men who are resting
in fancied security upon past laurels.
The business world is full of men who believe
because certain principles were correct years ago they
will win success to-day.
Are these the men who are winning in the scramble
for trade to-day? I rather think not. If a great bulk
of business comes to you voluntarily, you are certainly
to be congratulated, for you are in truth a magnet of
splendid proportions. But to my mind it requires some-
thing besides a lovely theory and a strong imagination
to win out in these times.
It requires a man who has courage and who is not
afraid to back his belief by risking something.
It takes a positive man to win his spurs now-a-
days and there is nothing in life that is worth the
winning that is not worth fighting for.
If trade is worth the winning it is not merely
worth the going at it—but it is worth going at it with
a vim and determination.
It is worth fighting for now—not next week or
next year, but now. Are you fighting or are you
just marking time ?
It was Napoleon who said,—"Every hour of lost
time is a chance of future misfortune/' and how many
business men are losing valuable hours through in-
activity !
Trade is not of the best. Good business is hard
to get, but the only way to get it is by hard, con-
centrative, over-time work, and what man is there
who is successful who has limited his work to a fixed
number of hours per diem ?
I don't know, do you ? See the point—rest is rust.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL.
11
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