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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, "as plain as the road to the mill."
the information which might be derived from having the extra light would, of course, far outweigh a ton of candles.
This is all very well; they may in this way save five or ten dollars a year, but being so economical (only in note paper), they think they can afford to waste time; to have expensive parties, and to drive their carriages. This is an illustration of Dr. Franklin's "saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung-hole;" "penny wise and pound foolish."
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
The real comforts of life cost but a small portion of what most of us can earn.
If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture."
there is one thing that nothing living except a vile worm ever naturally loved, and that is tobacco;
Young lads regret that they are not men; they would like to go to bed boys and wake up men; and to accomplish this they copy the bad habits of their seniors.
His palate has become narcotized by the noxious weed, and he has lost, in a great measure, the delicate and enviable taste for fruits.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
It is equally important that you do not commence business where there are already enough to meet all demands in the same occupation. I remember a case which illustrates this subject. When
To-day he is worth sixty thousand dollars, simply because he selected the right vocation and also secured the proper location.
Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.
"John, never get trusted; but if thee gets trusted for anything, let it be for 'manure,' because that will help thee pay it back again."
The creditor goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning better off than when he retired to bed, because his interest has increased during the night, but you grow poorer while you are sleeping, for the interest is accumulating against you.
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
"He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich."
Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
"I have discovered there is enough money in the world for all of us, if it was equally divided; this must be done, and we shall all be happy together." "But," was the response, "if everybody was like you, it would be spent in two months, and what would you do then?" "Oh! divide again; keep dividing, of course!"
"I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!" Do all you can for yourselves, and then trust to Providence,
The eye of the employer is often worth more than the hands of a dozen employees.
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
"you must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out."
Men in engaging employees should be careful to get the best. Understand, you cannot have too good tools to work with, and there is no tool you should be so particular about as living tools.
There is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money.
"There is no royal road to learning,"
Go on in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature; for "the proper study of mankind is man," and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles, your enlarged experience will enable you every day to accumulate more and more principal, which will increase itself by interest and otherwise, until you arrive at a state of independence. You will find, as a general thing, that the poor boys get rich and the rich boys get poor.
the poor of to-day are rich in the next generation, or the third.
"I have not yet decided which profession I will follow. Is your profession full?" "The basement is much crowded, but there is plenty of room up-stairs," was the witty and truthful reply.
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it.
however successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages ill a business which he don't understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.
hold that no man ought ever to indorse a note or become security, for any man,
You must get the first dollars by hard knocks, and at some sacrifice, in order to appreciate the value of those dollars.
a man has a genuine article, there is no way in which he can reap more advantageously than by "sowing" to the public in this way.
put it in a weekly newspaper three times, and paid a dollar and a half for it." I replied: "Sir, advertising is like learning—'a little is a dangerous thing!'"
"The reader of a newspaper does not see the first mention of an ordinary advertisement; the second insertion he sees, but does not read; the third insertion he reads; the fourth insertion, he looks at the price; the fifth insertion, he speaks of it to his wife; the sixth insertion, he is ready to purchase, and the seventh insertion, he purchases."
The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits.
