The Successful Man of BusinessBrentano, 1899 - 208 pages |
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A. T. Stewart ability ABRAHAM LINCOLN accomplish Adolph Sutro adversity advertising Alvin Adams ambition ANDREW CARNEGIE battle brain business career cause Charles Crocker child Claus Spreckels clerk condition consider courage customers danger death dollars earn employees endeavor experience fact fail failure fame fear firm follow fool force foresight fortune friends genius give Grant Grant & Ward grow hand hard heart Henry Ward Beecher honest honor hope Hyde ideas influence inspiration John Wanamaker labor lack light live looking luck never Marshall Field matter ment merchant nature ness night once opportunities ourselves parents possessed poverty proper prove purpose reach realized result says self-made self-reliance sell Shon Sir John Lubbock soul spirit stand struggle succeed successful business supremacy Sutro talent teaches things thou thought tion to-day trade turn unaided UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA victory walk wealth words young youth
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Page 55 - ... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows. "Friends," says he, "and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes...
Page 13 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 141 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 61 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 51 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past...
Page 11 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 93 - There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late.
Page 139 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 47 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!
Page 65 - So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God.