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They sell out good business enterprises at an absurdly low price because they have not got the nerve to hold on. Those who buy them secure the profits. One may pity the sellers, but cannot blame the buyers. Those who have the courage of their judgment are bound to win.
With a brother at his side, to second him in his hazardous enterprises, he felt he would indeed be invincible. He could have conquered the world! The old nurse held out a withered hand, and her eyes were moist with tears as she said: "Good-bye, Mr. Kenneth. A safe journey to you. Keep out of danger. I'll be praying for the Lord to watch over you."
J. Schouler's History of the United Slates, vol. IV; G. S. Callender's Selections from the Economic History of the United States ; G. S. Callender's Early Transportation and Banking Enterprises, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 17; W. A. Scott's Repudiation of State Debts , and the biographies and other works cited at the close of the last chapter will give the reader material for further study.
"Money-makin' proposition, hain't it?" "Of course." "But you're willin' to sell? Kind of funny, hain't it?" "Oh no. We have so many enterprises." "Glad you want to sell. I figger to make money on this stock. Want to buy a lot of it." "About how many shares?" "What you askin'?" said Scattergood. "Par." "Shucks! Give you thirty."
And since then, strangers to each other, they felt a tacit, mutual gratitude for their freedom. She would have had some affection for him if she had not found him hypocritical and too subtle in the art of obtaining her signature when he needed money for enterprises that were more for ostentation than real benefit. The man with whom she dined and talked every day had no significance for her.
"'If, on the contrary, they are divided amongst themselves if, instead of uniting for one of the most generous enterprises that ever signalized an age, they yield to the influence of selfish passions if they prefer a sterile individuality to a fruitful association if, in this immense fortune, they see only an opportunity for frivolous dissipation, or sordid interest may they be accursed by all those whom they might have loved, succored, and disfettered! and then let this house be utterly demolished and destroyed, and the papers, of which Isaac Samuel possesses the inventory, as well as the two portraits in the Red Room, be burnt by the guardian of the property.
When Buonaparte left Corsica for the coast of Provence, his career had been remarkable only for the strange contrast between the brilliance of his gifts and the utter failure of all his enterprises. His French partisanship had, as it seemed, been the ruin of his own and his family's fortunes.
Through the whole of the autumn and early winter, he had urged the States of Holland and Zeeland to make use of the long winter nights, when moonless and stormy, to attempt the destruction of Parma's undertaking, but the fatal influences already indicated were more efficient against Antwerp than even the genius of Farnese; and nothing came of the burgomaster's entreaties save desultory skirmishing and unsuccessful enterprises.
Sutton was, moreover, a gentleman, an owner of cattle and land, a man of substance whom lesser men were proud to mention as a friend a very hill-Rajah with stock in railroads and other enterprises, who owed allegiance and paid tribute alone to the Great Man of Coniston. Mr. Sutton was one who would make himself felt even in the capital of the United States felt and heard.
And previous steps, made before we are enabled to publish the Periodical, are subject to be criticized in the Periodical, and we undertake such enterprises or actions as we are ready to support before the tribunal of truth and righteousness. This rule contains all that a sensible man or woman using his or her intellectual and moral faculties may demand.
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