Category: Business/Management
I FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they are there. They do not all succeed in their attempt, I know. Some are idle and improvid...
IT is in America, as was to be expected, that rise more quickly than in any other country. Every one is ambitious, and there he realises the fact that no position is beyond his...
1. CHAPTER I.I FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking o...
4. CHAPTER IV.“After the reading of my paper on the vegetarian core for intemperance, before the Bristol Meeting of the British Association in 1875, I was addressed by an elderly gentleman an...
6. CHAPTER VI.ONE of the largest publishing houses in London, that of Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, was founded by John Cassell, a Lancashire carpenter, who walked to London, and when...
12. CHAPTER XII.WE have little faith in reflections. If a man cannot draw an inference for himself, it is little use anyone attempting to draw it for him. The reader of the preceding pages must...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A CURIOUS romance adds one more instructive fact to point the moral of a miser’s life, and of “the love of money.” For many years past an old man might have been seen carrying a...
10. CHAPTER X.IN 1825, a country lad arrived in London on the day before Good Friday. As he was born in 1806, he was about twenty years of age. He had served his apprenticeship with a linendr...
7. CHAPTER VII.IN 1875 a sensational paragraph appeared in most of the daily papers, announcing the death of “an old Mr. Attwood,” who was declared to have been a bachelor, and “the giver of a...
11. CHAPTER XI.MEN who are not supposed to be mercenary often make a great deal of money. Most of our artists rose from very humble beginnings. Turner was the son of a hair-dresser. Wilkie was...
9. CHAPTER IX.LET me, in this chapter, give the first place to Samuel Plimsoll, a man who, if he made money, spent it nobly, and deserved the peerage far more than many who have been elected...
5. CHAPTER V.VEGETARIANISM has made many people rich, but much more money has been made by men who have given up the practice of drinking beer, or wine, or spirits, and have profitably inves...
3. CHAPTER III.THE life of a self-made man is at all times a deeply interesting study. We like to see how he mastered surrounding circumstances, with what bravery he met adverse fate, and how...