The omission of a period cost the Sacramento dealer $1,000.

How many thousands have lost their wealth or lives, and how many frightful accidents have occurred through carelessness in sending messages! "The accurate boy is always the favored one," said President Tuttle.
"Those who employ men do not wish to be on the constant lookout, as though they were rogues or fools.

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; and it is very certain that the employer will get rid of such a blunderer as soon as he can." "If you make a good pin," said a successful manufacturer, "you will earn more than if you make a bad steam-engine." "There are women," said Fields, "whose stitches always come out, and the buttons they sew on fly off on the mildest provocation; there are other women who use the same needle and thread, and you may tug away at their work on your coat, or waistcoat, and you can't start a button in a generation." "Carelessness," "indifference," "slouchiness," "slipshod financiering," could truthfully be written over the graves of thousands who have failed in life.

How many clerks, cashiers, clergymen, editors, and professors in colleges have lost position and prestige by carelessness and inaccuracy! "You would be the greatest man of your age, Grattan," said Curran, "if you would buy a few yards of red tape and tie up your bills and papers." Curran realized that methodical people are accurate, and, as a rule, successful.
Bergh tells of a man beginning business who opened and shut his shop regularly at the same hour every day for weeks, without selling two cents' worth, yet whose application attracted attention and paved the way to fortune.
A.T.Stewart was extremely systematic and precise in all his transactions.

Method ruled in every department of his store, and for every delinquency a penalty was rigidly enforced.