How to Make Money, and how to Keep It; Or, Capital and Labor |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 15
... once , It is BUSINESS , in its various ranks and departments ; of which com- merce , foreign and domestic , is the most appropriate representation . In all prosperous and advancing communities , advancing in arts , knowledge ...
... once , It is BUSINESS , in its various ranks and departments ; of which com- merce , foreign and domestic , is the most appropriate representation . In all prosperous and advancing communities , advancing in arts , knowledge ...
Page 31
... once offered him $ 2,500 a year if he would leave his old place and accept a new engagement . So good an offer was of course not to be passed unnoticed . He accordingly broached the subject to the members of the firm by which he was ...
... once offered him $ 2,500 a year if he would leave his old place and accept a new engagement . So good an offer was of course not to be passed unnoticed . He accordingly broached the subject to the members of the firm by which he was ...
Page 58
... once ascertain the unit of this combined action , and all reveals itself as simply and plainly as the seemingly confused crowd of figures in the multiplication table was revealed to his youth- ful wondering eyes when he became aware of ...
... once ascertain the unit of this combined action , and all reveals itself as simply and plainly as the seemingly confused crowd of figures in the multiplication table was revealed to his youth- ful wondering eyes when he became aware of ...
Page 60
... once the injustice of taking his time and leav- ing him to starve . So each one made up in products just what it was thought he might have earned at agri- culture , and a little more on account of his having the material out of which he ...
... once the injustice of taking his time and leav- ing him to starve . So each one made up in products just what it was thought he might have earned at agri- culture , and a little more on account of his having the material out of which he ...
Page 61
... once con- sented to let the agriculturist join him . They commenced working together . But they had worked only a day or so on the cloth , when it became apparent that the one did twice as much as the other , and did it twice as well ...
... once con- sented to let the agriculturist join him . They commenced working together . But they had worked only a day or so on the cloth , when it became apparent that the one did twice as much as the other , and did it twice as well ...
Common terms and phrases
accumulate acquired Amos Lawrence amount apprentice bank become better capital cash chapter character clerk cloth compound interest dollar double-entry book-keeping employer employment endowment policy equally expenditure expenses fail failure farm fortune gain give hand hoes honest honor improved independence industry Interest With Interest investment J. W. Alexander journeyman keep kind knowledge labor living look lose loss lost manner manufacturer matter means mechanic ment mercantile merchant mind money-making moral mutual companies necessary ness never P. T. BARNUM paid person plumber polite principles profit purchase qualities requires result rich rience rule safe salary Samuel Smiles sell seven per cent Sir Arthur Helps skill spend success suppose sure things tion trade transactions true valuable wealth young
Popular passages
Page 235 - Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.
Page 44 - Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold. Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old, To the very verge of the church-yard mold ; Price of many a crime untold ! Gold ! gold ! gold ! gold...
Page 121 - Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money.
Page 356 - Remember that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it.
Page 111 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 357 - He that murders a crown destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. For this little sum (which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived) a man of credit may, on his own security, have the constant possession and use of a hundred pounds. So much in stock, briskly turned by an industrious man, produces great advantage. Remember this saying, "the good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.
Page 110 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor," as poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve ; for, " at the working man's house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 115 - Marshal thy notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight trussed and packed up in bundles, than when it lies untoward flapping and hanging about his shoulders.
Page 110 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honour ; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate, nor the Office, will enable us to pay our Taxes.
Page 107 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory.