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Slow Gains Outlast Speculative Fortunes

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

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Slow Gains Outlast Speculative Fortunes

This was a sage remark of an old Boston merchant: “I've stood here on State street for forty years, and I have seen men accumulate fortunes by speculations, and I've seen these fortunes disappear. I have seen men grow up in worldly wealth, and go down, and I've always noticed that those persons who were content with slow gains and six per cent interest came out ahead in the long run,