[Finance] McCabe, James D. , GREAT FORTUNES and HOW THEY WERE MADE; or THE STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS of OUR SELF-MADE MEN.  Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford & Company, 1871. 1^st Ed. Green cloth hardcover w/gilt titling and ornate decor, 8vo (8.375” x 5.625”), a.e.g.,  Very good / n.a., 633 pp. Spine rubbed at head and tail, corners bumped and rubbed, very light infrequent spotting, no foxing noted. Binding is tight.

 

            The physical industries of this world have two relations in them: one to the actor, and one to the public.  Honest business is more really a contribution to the public than it is to the manager of the business himself.  Although it seems to the man, and generally to the community, that the active businessman is a self-seeker, and although his motive may be self-aggrandizement, yet, in point of fact, no man ever manages a legitimate business in this life, that he is not doing a thousand-fold  more for the other men than he is trying to do even for himself.  For in the economy of God’s providence, every right and well organized business is a benefice and not a selfishness.  And not less is it so because the merchant, the mechanic the publisher, the artist, think merely of their profit.  They are in fact working more for others than they are for themselves. – Henry Ward Beecher (From a free fly-leaf immediately following the copyright.)

 

Ah, the secrets of getting rich from all the people who did so in most splendid fashion.  Quite the distinctive and beautiful tome indeed – a marvelous Capture of Tyme.