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Business offers a wealth of lucrative opportunities, but only to the man who makes his own breaks, three experts agreed last night before a packed Lowell House audience at the Placement Office's fourth career parley.
"The world is open," T. H. Sanders, professor of Accounting at the Business School, told the conference. Success comes to the man who "shows the firm exactly what he can do for it," he declared, listing "creative capacity" as the most important quality for a would-be business man."
The necessity for practical ideas as a pre-requisite for success was also expounded by Nicholas E. Peterson, vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston, who advised as a preliminary step, "Know exactly what line you want to enter, and then study its particular functions and developments."
Alva F. Kindall, personnel manager of Filene's, urged that aspiring entrepreneurs first take "rough jobs to work side by side with the workers, whose reactions they must know and understand."
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