Decatur County Journal Leon, Iowa Thursday, October 26, 1911 'SUCCESS TALKS' By B.F. Williams ----------------------------------------- ECONOMY ~~ Most of the gigantic business enterprises of today are operated on your small margins of profit, and the practice of economy has become a science. In great factories, immense workshops, and extensive offices, to say nothing of the business of the government of railroad companies, insurance companies etc., are adopted every possible means of effecting small savings, for upon the small savings hangs the hope of success. The by-products of the packing house produce the fund from which dividends are declared, and the nickels that the street railway company collects eventually amounts to millions. The young man whose business interests are not extensive must give the same painstaking attention to small economics as does the large institution if he hopes ever to occupy more than a mediocre place in his community. It takes much will power to be really economical, for on every hand are temptations that cry out loud and long for the extra dimes and nickles -- the denominations on which fortunes are founded. -------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert December 30, 2009 [email protected] Note: I thought this very appropriate with today's terrible economic situation..........doesn't address the government bail out money??!! hmm.