tailieunhanh - Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money

Tham khảo sách 'captains of industry or, men of business who did something besides making money', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Captains of Industry by James Parton 1 CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY JAMES PARTON Captains of Industry by James Parton The Project Gutenberg EBook of Captains of Industry by James Parton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Captains of Industry or Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money Author James Parton Release Date December 9 2006 EBook 20064 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY Produced by Stacy Brown Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Illustration Very Truly Yours Ichabod Washburn CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY Captains of Industry by James Parton OR 2 MEN OF BUSINESS WHO DID SOMETHING BESIDES MAKING MONEY A BOOK FOR YOUNG AMERICANS BY JAMES PARTON FIFTH THOUSAND Illustration BOSTON HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press Cambridge 1890 Copyright 1884 By JAMES PARTON. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press Cambridge Mass. U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton Company. PREFACE. In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. The American people were fortunate in having at an early period an ideal man of this kind in Benjamin Franklin who at the age of forty-two just mid-way in his life deliberately relinquished the most profitable business of its kind in the colonies for the sole purpose of developing electrical science. In this as in other respects his example has had great influence with his countrymen. A distinguished author who lived some years at