“You attribute nothing to good fortune?”
“Nothing!” Certainly the word came well from a man whose energy, integrity and business ability made more money out of a ditch than other men were making out of rich placers in the gold region.
“May I ask what you consider the turning-point of your career?”
“The time when I began to save the money I earned at the gold-fields.”
“What trait do you consider most essential in young men?”
“Truth. Let them get that. Young men talk about getting capital to work with. Let them get truth on board, and capital follows. It’s easy enough to get that.”
“Did you always desire to follow a commercial rather than a professional life?”
“Not always. I have no talent in any other direction, but I should have liked to be a great orator.”