| Show THE NAPOLEONS OF BUSINESS much used to be said about the napoleons of finance successful operators in the financial world were compared with the immortal napoleon bonaparte Bona who marched hj is s armies all over europe and to whom kings king s and emier emder ors and plebeians plebe ians all bowed down his rule was absolute for a time but it finally collapsed by its own weight in ill the homely old phrase lie he bit off more than he be could chew it frequently works that way with the Napo napoleons hons of business and financial world some men have a kind of brilliant audacity that wins marvellous marcellous marv ellous results for a time at least if they havethe have the sense to quit with their win aings mi ip s they may spend the rest of their lives as men of wealth but ordinarily the game is too fascinating for that they like to keep on oil making more napoleonic strokes then someday some day they reach a little too far they get in over their depth and the business sea closes over their heads these napoleonic strokes usually involve considerable i risks if business is good and the times favorable the ventures thus made may prove highly successful but there are so many unexpected turns in business so much competition appears from unexpected qu quarters arters that those who take risky chances are apt to lose the bu business sines s world is not looking for napoleonic napoleon ic strokes just now it does not care so much for sudden expansion as it does for sure progress and steady e P crowth the men I 1 who see brilliant chances ahead provided large amounts of capital are risked on oil untried ventures not so popular as they were people willod rather have those who will work along the paths that experience has shown to be useful and who seek to go po 0 ahead by gradual arn dual progress rather than by swift and dashing strokes if experiments have to be made people prefer to make them ona on a small scale where the loss will not be too heavy before trying big hazards in ili short what is wanted is steady operation I 1 regular employment and sure returns f |
