Do from subordinate positions at the beginning
已有 249 次阅读 2012-05-12 11:15 标签: beginning business leading successThe prime condition great secrets of success
It is well that young men
should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of
the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon
them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom,
and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I
notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men
unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance
the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of
the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The
other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had
ever seen a lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he
never had ,and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he ,after
a pause, “What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room” It does not hurt
the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those
sweepers myself.
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are
fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the
young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an
important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk,
or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to
yourself ,“My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.
To summarize what
I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor,
or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus
cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners;
concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure
always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one
can cheat you out of ultimate success in making hammer
crusher but yourselves.”
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