Excerpt from Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business Difficulties; Duty of Trusting to Ourselves; Early Rising; Easy Way of Gaining or Losing Five Years of Life; Energy versus Despair; Energetic Men; Extract from Sir Fowell Buxton's Letter to his Son; Firmness important to the Merchant; Four Good Words; Fowell Buxton's Motto; Gambling; Getting on in the World; Go ahead; Good Advice; Habits of a Man of Business; Hints; How to Prosper in Business; How to make Money; Idleness; Importance of Trifles; Industry and Integrity; Industry and its Blessings; Integrity the Foundation of Mercantile Character; Integrity of Character; It will never do to be Idle; Jefferson's Ten Rules; Keep your Promise; Keep your Designs to Yourself; Make a Beginning; Maxims for Guidance through Life; Micawber's Advice; Moral Agriculture; Much Wisdom in Little; Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich; Never do too much at a Time; Now!; Parsimony and Economy in Trade; Paste this up in your Mind About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.