Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

by George Horace Lorimer

You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

it isn’t so much knowing a whole lot, as knowing a little and how to use it that counts.

You will never make a good merchant of yourself by reversing the order in which the Lord decreed that we should proceed—learning the spending before the earning end of business.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.