There are plenty of chances in favor of your losing every cent you have, and then being obliged to go back to journey-work, which will not be the most agreeable thing in the world.

For my part, I would much rather enjoy what little I have as I go along, than stint and deny myself every thing comfortable for six or seven years, in order to set up business for myself, and then lose every dollar.

It is not every man, I can tell you, who is fit to go into business, nor every man who can succeed, if he does.
The fact is, there must be journeymen as well as master-workmen.

As for me, I have no taste for going into business, and don't believe I should succeed if I did set up for myself.

I expect to work journey-work all my life, and might just as well take my comfort as I go along." "I shall not attempt to dispute what you say about some men being born to be journeymen, and others to be master-workmen," replied the friend of Johnson, "for I am very well aware that the gifts of all are different; and that some men are so peculiarly constituted, that they would not succeed if they were to set up business for themselves.