The business man was merchant, manufacturer, and storekeeper.

Almost everybody was something of a politician.

The number of parts which a man of energy played in his time was astonishingly large.

Andrew Jackson was successively a lawyer, judge, planter, merchant, general, politician, and statesman; and he played most of these parts with conspicuous success.

In such a society a man who persisted in one job, and who applied the most rigorous and exacting standards to his work, was out of place and was really inefficient.