WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS .

have some old methods, as solid and old as
Dover Castle, but they are of no use to-day.
We must re-build our industries on new lines.
It is possible for a man of forty, who has
been drifting along for twenty years, to
suddenly pull himself together and make a new
start.
There is such a thing in the business world
as being ‘‘ born again.” Sometimes a man hears
a speech, or reads a book or magazine, that
makes a sudden shift in his brain.
It transfers his will-power. It wakes him up.
It gives him an impulse to action. It starts him
on a new road that leads to success.
A firm, too, can suddenly arouse itself and
double its energies. It may have been drifting
along for twenty years. No matter. It can have
a rebirth.
There are, literally, thousands of firms in
Great Britain that need to be ‘‘ born again.”
The business world is all alive and growing,
and every firm must grow with it. It must
adapt itself to the new fashions and improve-
ments. Just as the body is kept alive by the
circulation of the blood, so is a business firm
kept alive by the circulation of new ideas.

Many of our older firms, and a few of the

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