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Updated: June 10, 2025
They could not have fooled him. I didn't know what was coming until it was too late. A get-rich-quick man always pays for his own speed!" "Stevuns, you'll make me so nervous I can't go to-night. It's a lovely party. You stay home and tell papa all about it, but leave me in peace." "Thank you, I will. And is this the sympathy and the understanding you give me when I say we are being ruined?"
That so many people could be duped by these "get-rich-quick" methods is an indication of the amazing lack of cooperative understanding which prevails in the United States. It is a part of the purpose of this Bulletin to correct the misunderstanding which prevails because of the fraudulent use of the word cooperation. In the case of a suspected false cooperative, test it by the Rochdale principles.
If he is taken and put in prison and finally released, he is hard to cure. Forgery is too easy and he knows of no other trade so good. A large percentage of these men never would have forged, had their wages been higher. Many others are the victims of the get-rich-quick disease; they haunt the gambling houses, brokers' offices and the like.
"Well," said the young banker, "that bears out what I had heard of Peters that he was a get-rich-quick chap, and a good one to steer clear of." "Speaking of steering clear," laughed Tom, "there he is now, in his big boat," and he pointed to a red blur coming up the lake. "I'll give him a wide enough berth this time." But though Mr.
"I mean, my dear lady, that he has the get-rich-quick fever. He has a rage for stock gambling he is already heavily involved. I have often warned him to go slower, to be more prudent, but he won't heed my counsel. You know, he is very headstrong your husband. As long as everything goes well he is all right. If anything goes wrong, he might find himself in an unpleasant predicament.
Go on back to work, if you're so crazy about working; I'm sure I don't want to hinder you in any of your get-rich-quick schemes!" She shut her teeth together with a click, jerked Blue angrily into the trail when he had merely stepped out of it to avoid a rock, and managed to make him as conscious of her mood as was Ward. Ward eyed her unobtrusively with his face set straight ahead.
Don't you know that get-rich-quick people always pay a usurer's interest on the suddenly accumulated principle?" "Keep on," he said in the same surly tone.
In 1823 one of these men arrived with soldiers, supplies, skilled miners, and one hundred and fifty slaves; and thereafter the "diggings" fast became a mecca for miners, smelters, speculators, merchants, gamblers, and get-rich-quick folk of every sort, who swarmed thither by thousands from every part of the United States, especially the South, and even from Europe.
But, apparently, Max and his chums must have about exhausted the mine of good luck, for when every mussel within twenty miles of Carson had been caught, the result was so meagre that the searchers gave up the new "get-rich-quick" game in disgust.
There was a little silence then, but after the waiter had filled the long-stemmed glasses and hurried away, she said slowly, her gray-blue eyes sifting Jimmie through and through: "It looks like you've been playing cards for money, but I never should have suspected it of you." Daniels shook his head gravely. "No get-rich-quick games for me. My luck doesn't come that way.
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