HOW DOES ONE PURSUE SUCCESS

Ralph Waldo Emerson is uncharacteristically succinct on the point: "There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so in making money." Other nineteenth-century orators exhorted young men to: Behold him [a statue of Benjamin Franklin],... holding out to you an example of diligence, economy and virtue, and personifying the triumphant success which may await those who follow it! Behold him, ye that are humblest and poorest...-lift up your heads and look at the image of a man who rose from nothing, who owed nothing to parentage or patronage, who enjoyed no advantages of early education, which are not open,-a hundredfold open,-to yourself, who performed the most menial services in the business in which his early life was employed, but who lived to stand before kings, and died to leave a name which the world will never forget.