John Jacob Astor
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John J. Astor appears in Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men. The text says that the man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock usually gets rich and is always reliable. The text says that men are rich only as they give, and that he who gives great service gets great returns. The text says there is only one prison, and its name is Inefficiency.
The text says that by Eighteen Hundred and Ten John Jacob Astor was worth two million dollars. The text says that Astor bought Richmond Hill, the estate of Aaron Burr, paying a thousand dollars an acre, and that people said Astor was crazy. The text says that Astor was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and yet lived out his days with a beautiful and perfect disbelief in revealed religion.
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- Author
- Elbert Hubbard
- Reading time
- About 30 minutes
- Pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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