Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 50 N. 21 - Page 3
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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave.,New York, May 21, 1910
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UEER old game this!
It has its lights and its shadows, too.
What proportion of the time does the average business man spend in discussing the
affairs of his competitors?
That question was propounded to me the other day, and I replied by saying that it depended en-
tirely upon the trade, for there is no trade in which competitors do not keep a watchful eye on the
doings of the men with whom they are crossing blades every hour of the day.
That is what makes the business game interesting—what gives it life and spice—ginger, if you will,
and it requires every kind of stimulation to broaden business, no matter in what trade.
Every progressive business man is earnestly desirous of drawing 'round him a profitable clientele;
not only that, but he takes a pride as well in seeing his plans develop along responsive lines.
If it were not so, business would halt.
Sometimes men will plan earnestly and carefully and still score a failure instead of success, but if
you do not succeed, take another trial.
Do not stop trying.
If you have done pretty well keep on doing better—keep on, at least, doing the best you can.
Put to yourself the question which Napoleon put to his generals when they reported a victory:
"What did you do the next day?"
Keep on, never halting.
Such is life.
•
We may try to shirk and sit down, but we are moved along in spite of ourselves, little human
atoms struggling in the great race.
It pays to keep working, and it does not pay to get into a rut.
The only difference between success and commonplace failure nine times out of ten is the ability
that a man has to make a resolution and keep it. And if we resolve to go ahead and keep doing things
it will be surprising' what results will be accomplished as time rolls on.
It is not always what is accomplished each day, but it's the cumulative force that goes with a
successful day's accomplishment.
Things are changing all the time.
The talking machine was crude years ago, and to-day it is a great educator and entertainer, and
so recognized in all circles.
The telephone was but a new-fangled scientific toy at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, ard
to-day what could we do without it? And yet this has all been the process of evolution, and so it is in
business.
It is the hang-lo-it-iveness that counts—sticking close to the subject and not being diverted by
superficial allurements of any kind.
FMEW
THE
V O L . L. N o . 21.
*«5£
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave.,New York, May 21, 1910
^^£4^£4^^^ l ^<^^£<^^^^^^^^^^^£4^^£^£'^^^^£^^^
SING
$ 3 E OO 0 P P ERVE°A C R ENTS
&Z£&£<&&&<&&£<&<*^^
SticR
Q
UEER old game this!
It has its lights and its shadows, too.
What proportion of the time does the average business man spend in discussing the
affairs of his competitors?
That question was propounded to me the other day, and I replied by saying that it depended en-
tirely upon the trade, for there is no trade in which competitors do not keep a watchful eye on the
doings of the men with whom they are crossing blades every hour of the day.
That is what makes the business game interesting—what gives it life and spice—ginger, if you will,
and it requires every kind of stimulation to broaden business, no matter in what trade.
Every progressive business man is earnestly desirous of drawing 'round him a profitable clientele;
not only that, but he takes a pride as well in seeing his plans develop along responsive lines.
If it were not so, business would halt.
Sometimes men will plan earnestly and carefully and still score a failure instead of success, but if
you do not succeed, take another trial.
Do not stop trying.
If you have done pretty well keep on doing better—keep on, at least, doing the best you can.
Put to yourself the question which Napoleon put to his generals when they reported a victory:
"What did you do the next day?"
Keep on, never halting.
Such is life.
•
We may try to shirk and sit down, but we are moved along in spite of ourselves, little human
atoms struggling in the great race.
It pays to keep working, and it does not pay to get into a rut.
The only difference between success and commonplace failure nine times out of ten is the ability
that a man has to make a resolution and keep it. And if we resolve to go ahead and keep doing things
it will be surprising' what results will be accomplished as time rolls on.
It is not always what is accomplished each day, but it's the cumulative force that goes with a
successful day's accomplishment.
Things are changing all the time.
The talking machine was crude years ago, and to-day it is a great educator and entertainer, and
so recognized in all circles.
The telephone was but a new-fangled scientific toy at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, ard
to-day what could we do without it? And yet this has all been the process of evolution, and so it is in
business.
It is the hang-lo-it-iveness that counts—sticking close to the subject and not being diverted by
superficial allurements of any kind.
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