As soon as I got to Manchester, I laid out all my money, things were so cheap, and I made a good profit." "I hope," said a listener, "that your children are not too fond of money and business to the exclusion of more important things.

I am sure you would not wish that." "I am sure I would wish that," said Rothschild; "I wish them to give mind, and soul, and heart, and body, and everything to business; that is the way to be happy." "Stick to one business, young man," he added, addressing a young brewer; "stick to your brewery, and you may be the great brewer of London.

But be a brewer, and a banker, and a merchant, and a manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette." Not many things indifferently, but one thing supremely, is the demand of the hour.

He who scatters his efforts in this intense, concentrated age, cannot hope to succeed.
"Goods removed, messages taken, carpets beaten, and poetry composed on any subject," was the sign of a man in London who was not very successful at any of these lines of work, and reminds one of Monsieur Kenard, of Paris, "a public scribe, who digests accounts, explains the language of flowers, and sells fried potatoes." The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work.

Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success; but they labor at haphazard, building up with one hand only to tear down with the other.