"John Jacob Astor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... narrow selfishness in a father which leads him to wish his son a reproduction of himself. "You are trying to make that boy another you. One is enough," said Emerson. John Jacob Astor's father wished his son to be his successor as a butcher, but the instinct of commercial enterprise was too strong ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... off, I proceeded to New York. I was short of cash; and, my old landlord being dead, I had to look about me for a new ship. This time, I went in a brig, called the Boxer, a clipper, belonging to John Jacob Astor, bound to Canton. This proved to be a pleasant and successful voyage, so far as the vessel was concerned, at least; the brig being back at New York, again, eight months after we sailed. I went in ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper
... as well as I c-c-can think, I could make a fortune 'side of which old John Jacob Astor's would look like a ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss |
