# The Young Man in Business Author: Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 Genre: Category: How To ... Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31494 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Young+Man+in+Business+Bok&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary A WELL-KNOWN New York millionaire gave it as his opinion not long ago that any young man possessing a good constitution and a fair degree of intelligence might acquire riches. The statement was criticised--literally picked to pieces--and finally adjudged as being extravagant. The figures then came out, gathered by a careful statistician, that of the young men in business in New York City, sixty per cent, were earning less than $1,000 per year, only twenty per cent, had an income of $2,000, and barely five per cent, commanded salaries in excess of the latter figure. The great majority of young men in New York City--that is, between the ages of twenty-three and thirty--were earning less tha... ## Chapters - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-man-in-business-31494/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-young-man-in-business-31494/chapters/2/index.md)