| Anthony Atwood - 1842 - 202 pages
...are formed, which cleave to them like their shadow during life. It was the saying of a wise man, ' take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.' Parents themselves are apt to teach, and children do not forget the lesson, that pennies and sixpences... | |
| Orson Squire Fowler - 1847 - 326 pages
...mottos, many of which enjoin that industry and economy here urged. Especially save the driblets. " Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves." Forego all unnecessary expenses, such as for candies, ice-creams, beer, alcoholic drinks, tobacco,... | |
| 1847 - 408 pages
...prevents vice by securing industry and economy. and economy here urged. Especially, save the driblets. " Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves." Forego . all unnecessary expenses, such as for candies, ice-creams, beer, alcoholic drinks, tobacco,... | |
| Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 500 pages
...from a saving boy, walking the street with a roll under his arm, became a companion for kings, says, "Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves." La Fitte ; the celebrated French banker, leaving the house to which he had applied for clerkship, was... | |
| Ira Wilder Allen - 1858 - 354 pages
...playthings ? Is it not decidedly vulgar, in these "Young America" times, to observe the good old maxim, "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves ?" tervening 10 months, to April 1st, 1858, would soon pass. The signer* were responsible and honorable... | |
| 1878 - 420 pages
...life, attending to little things, can we discover great things ; how thus become Brights or Jenners ? Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves," so look out for details and great things will come of it. Let this very unscientific craving for the... | |
| Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 pages
...fragments, that nothing be lost." The best of " Poor Richard's " maxims, perhaps, is the one which says, " Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves." In looking at the paintings and drawings of the old masters, one striking difference between them and... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1889 - 416 pages
...that of careful attention to the little details of business. It is an old saying and none is truer: "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." Probably it would not be out of the wav to say that fully one-half of the failures in business in this... | |
| Benjamin Young Conklin - 1889 - 316 pages
...sentences : 1. Drive your work, or your work will drive you. 2. Wo grow older and we grow wiser. 3. Take care of the pennies, and the dollars will take care of themselves. 4. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. 5. This... | |
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