Getting into the Business

Success, in any particular business, depends for one thing
upon your possessing, in a well-developed state, the faculty-
ties required in that business.
Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a teacher
of music. Without well-developed mechanical faculties no one
can achieve great success in any of the mechanical trades. With-
out tact and the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile
pursuits. But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required
in your particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are
musicians who have remarkable talent and who yet remain poor.
There are blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on that has excellent
mechanical ability, but who do not get rich. And there are merchants
with good faculties for dealing with people who nevertheless fail.
The different faculties are tools. It is essential to have well
tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the
right way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good plane,
and so on, and build a handsome article of furniture. Another
man can take the same tools and set to work to duplicate the
article, but his production will be a botch. He does not know
how to use good tools in a successful way.
The various faculties of your mind are the tools with which
you must do the work which is to make you rich. So it will be
easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you
are well equipped with mental tools.
Generally speaking, you will do best in that business which
will use your strongest faculties. the one for which you are
naturally .best fitted. But there are limitations to this statement
also. No one should regard his vocation as being irrevocably
fixed by the tendencies with which he was born.
You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right
talent, you can develop that talent. It merely means that you will
have to make your tools as you go along, instead of confining
yourself to the use of those with which you were born. It will be
easier for you to succeed in a vocation for which you already
.You can get rich in ANY business have the talents in a well-developed
state, but you can succeed in any vocation, for you can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent of which you have not at least the rudiment.