By putting in other words, you can make the true history of every great business in the world which has lasted thirty years." "We have no secret," said Manager Daniel J.Morrill, of the Cambria Iron Works, employing seven thousand men, at Johnstown, Pa.

"We always try to beat our last batch of rails.

That is all the secret we've got, and we don't care who knows it." "I don't try to see how cheap a machine I can produce, but how good a machine," said the late John C.Whitin, of Northbridge, Mass., to a customer who complained of the high price of some cotton machinery.
Business men soon learned what this meant; and when there was occasion to advertise any machinery for sale, New England cotton manufacturers were accustomed to state the number of years it had been in use and add, as an all-sufficient guaranty of Northbridge products, "Whitin make." Put thoroughness into your work: it pays.
"The accurate boy is always the favored one," said President Tuttle.

If a carpenter must stand at his journeyman's elbow to be sure his work is right, or if a cashier must run over his bookkeeper's columns, he might as well do the work himself as employ another to do it in that way.
"Mr.Girard, can you not assist me by giving me a little work ?" asked one John Smith, who had formerly worked for the great banker and attracted attention by his activity.
"Assistance--work--ah?
You want work ?" "Yes sir; it's a long time since I've had anything to do." "Very well, I shall give you some.

You see dem stone yondare ?" "Yes, sir." "Very well; you shall fetch and put them in this place; you see ?" "Yes sir." "And when you done, come to me at my bank." Smith finished his task, reported to Mr.Girard, and asked for more work.