Speak to the eight o'clock man and he will
tell you that he has to stay up till ten at night, and that he cannot
burn the candle of life at both ends. But, for all that, he is
grievously disappointed when the final collapse comes. Nothing succeeds
like success because very few things are like success. Nothing on the
street succeeds like this grocery, because nowhere else on the street is
so much work done by so few men. Nowhere else does the proprietor put
all of his time and his money into his business, and, in strawberry
time, for instance, retail thirty-five dollars' worth of strawberries in
one day with only one clerk, one delivery-boy and a cashier! At the same
time, this successful grocer would not invest one cent in the store-room
opposite, where, with so much confidence, the eight-o'clock man has put
all his money.
THE MAN OF SUCCESS KNOWS THE DIFFICULTIES.
"Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that
putteth it off," says the Bible, yet that is precisely what we are doing
when we smile at the sally of some envious dealer about the "luck" of
our grocer--that "nothing succeeds as well as success.
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