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The Lack Of Reserve

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

"He had no reserve." How often we hear this expression on 'change or in the street when a firm has failed or when a business man has been pushed to the wall! It would make a fitting epitaph for the grave of many a failure. A man without reserve is like a condemned, leaky vessel. On a calm day it can be towed from port to port, but it would be utterly helpless in a storm.

Many fail from lack of reserve of education, of early training, of solid, ingrained habit. Others fail from lack of reserve of savings, of capital. Many have gone down from the lack of character reserve, of health reserve, of friendship reserve. It pays to store up reserve of every kind, to be prepared for every emergency. Too exhausting effort, too extravagant expenditure, too reckless daring or too much reliance on unknown factors Ieaves no margin or reserve, so that a slip would mean certain fall.- Success.