Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. HOW TO MAKE MONEY. Means of money-making. — Diversity.—Selection.—Stand by.— Chance and choice.—Different aims.—Relative wants.—Mark and abide.—Most accomplished.—Commerce a failure.—Not so always.—Chances in Boston.—Fail as a class.—A strong bank. —One per cent. in Philadelphia.—Two per cent. in New York. —Bankrupt act.—Chances in Cincinnati.—Chances in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.—Nearly all fail.—Shrink-with terror.—Mercantile business same as banking well done.— Causes of failure not explained.—Will be.—Would pay best.— Business example.—Kid-glove merchant.—Failure.—Ignorance alike.—Course.—End.—It must make.—Merchants and banks. —Fault somewhere.—Success and failure hand in hand.—Employer and employed.—When most valuable.—Manners make money.—How.—Losses by same.—Example.—Others.—Little element. — Great results. — Bad manners expensive.—Metal merchant.—Incivility and ignorance.—Loss $196,401.—Expensive amusement.—Great principle.—Lose or gain.—Fire.—Loss $30,000.—General principles.—All make money.—Danger just here.—" Every one to his trade."—Beware.—Look out.—The made dollar.—Stop and read.—Where the trouble lies. The means of making money are as various as the employments into which individuals enter. There is no occupation which yields more than the sum required for support, that does not afford an opportunity for gain. There is a choice of such employments; some producing more money than others for the same time and the same labor. It is well to look to that difference in the selection to be made. But when the occupation is once entered upon never leave it while there is a reasonable demand for either the articles dealt in or the kind of labor bestowed, This cardinal in money-making of course only applies tothose who are thus engaged, and not to...