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. His eye was upon his
business in all its ramifications; he mastered every detail and worked
hard.

From the time Jonas Chickering began to work for a piano-maker, he was
noted for the pains and care with which he did everything. To him
there were no trifles in the manufacturing of pianos. Neither time nor
labor was of any account to him, compared with accuracy and knowledge.
He soon made pianos in a factory of his own. He determined to make an
instrument yielding the fullest and richest volume of melody with the
least exertion to the player, withstanding atmospheric changes, and
preserving its purity and truthfulness of tone. He resolved that each