Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-13 | Page 24 | Dictionary of Success

The Dictionary G of Success By HERBERT KAUFMAN Time be began an chasin chasing r Tomorrow morrow at at atthe the outset of Eternity and hasn't overtaken it yet s so what chance do you you stand Life is a battle royal between and An encyclopedia isn't worth a tinkers tinker's dam without a calendar This is the day to do it One delayed link stops slops a whole ch chain in of action The Che fastest machine must wait for its slowest cog to turn Synchronize Use clock its it's our its clock watching your record l J Every tock Mock ticks off a toll of rent rent measures measures a a depreciation equipment and charges and charges up a percentage ge of operating operating operating oper oper- costs We want a corresponding yield from you Produce i in p proportion to your wage Yo You demand pay for every very second and we insist upon an equivalent return r Keep your mind on our business you business you contracted ct d to surrender all 11 rights to its private use in office hours Your own thoughts are interlopers during the term of the lease You cant can't honorably poach on our preserves Send your worries and debts and schemes home to wait for you and pitch into ours ours that's that's your job Half a dozen other departments cant can't proceed with their schedules because you are blocking the course cours of routine A laggard creates waste vaste all through an organization You You aren't arent aren't important but your delinquency is A sprung rail can wreck an express train Little worm orm holes waterlog waterlog waterlog water water- log a great ship And little irr s scuttle powerful concerns Sammy the office bo Y loiters on the wa way y discounts the promptness of his employer and ups upsets ts a a. a deal Carrie Carr the stenographer mixes her envelopes pes and letters betrays confidential secrets in in dangerous s' s q quarters darters and creates ruinous litigation Hogan the shipping clerk misses the last express and kills a hard won account I. I Judson the bookkeeper postpones his his' balance sheet the sheet the s ebo boss cant can't keep his b bank a appointment ointment a note go goes goes' s' s to protest and the com company's an s 's credit goes to o pot f J Hawkins the manager puts off hl his consultation with the doctor and is stricken suddenly by a a. a trouble which timeliness timeliness tImelIness ness would have averted leaving his affairs in a ruinous mess i Wentworth the surgeon forgets to sterilize his instruments and infects the next patient Delay is the seed of disaster and nd death There can be no efficiency without promptness ss Slipshod brilliance never did aid win out one out one reliable man is s wO worth th a dozen triflers and succeeds ds accordingly There are only two words in the vocabulary of opportunity opportunity ho how v and now Copyright 1916 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved