Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting Reminiscences and Facts, Remarkable Traits and Humors ... of Merchants, Traders, Bankers ... Etc. in All Ages and Countries ...D. Appleton, 1865 - 387 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
amount anecdote asked Astor bank notes Bank of England banker banking house Baring Brothers became bill Boston broker called cashier cent chant character clerk coin commercial counting house dealer directors discount English ERASTUS CORNING establishment exchange fifty firm five fortune France Francis Baring French funds gentleman Gideon Lee Girard give gold hand honor Hope & Co hundred thousand Jacob Jacob Barker Jacques Cœur John known land latter loan London look ment mercantile merchant Meyer Anselm million ness never Nicholas Longworth offered once Orleans pawnbrokers person present profits purchase received replied rich Rothschild sell sent shillings ship sold soon specie Stephen Girard street success teller thousand dollars thousand pounds tion took trade twenty vessel wealth York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 102 - I am sure I should wish that : I wish them to give mind, soul, heart, and body to business — that is the way to be happy. It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Página 385 - ... for the king and all his subjects. The time is coming when it will be cheaper for a working man to travel on a railway than to walk on foot. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties...
Página 132 - That he expected his orders were to be his rules, and not the laws of England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies, and foreign commerce " (Hamilton's New Account of India, i.232).
Página 171 - Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Página 86 - I looked into the great hall, where the bank is kept, and was not a little pleased to see the directors, secretaries, and clerks, with all the other members of that wealthy corporation, ranged in their several stations, according to the parts they act, in that just and regular economy.
Página 322 - Stoll or Lost, may have the same Inserted at a Reasonable Rate ; from Twelve Pence to Five Shillings, and not to exceed : Who may agree with Nicholas Boone for the same at his Shop next door to Major Davis's, Apothecary in Boston near the Old Meeting House. " All Persons in Town and Country may have said NewsLetter Weekly upon reasonable tearms, agreeing with John Campbell Post Master for the same.
Página 256 - In order to keep up the credit of our house, I have forged powers of attorney for the above sums and parties, and sold out to the amount here stated, and without the knowledge of my partners. I kept up the payment of the dividends, but made no entries of such payments in our books.
Página 145 - I understand," said the President, " you taught us how to spin, so as to rival Great Britain in her manufactures ; you set all these thousands of spindles at work, which I have been delighted in viewing, and which have made so many happy by a lucrative employment." " Yes, sir," said Mr. Slater, " I suppose that I gave out the Psalm, and they have been singing to the tune ever since.
Página 316 - Money, with a figure of a hat subjoined. But he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to, thought the word hatter tautologous, because followed by the words makes hats, which showed he was a hatter.