Could he have been persuaded to accept this, he would have been a multimillionaire; but his pride, and more particularly that of his family, perhaps, would not permit this.
He would go into business on his own account, and, notwithstanding the most urgent appeals on my part, and that of my colleagues, he persisted in the determination to start a new rival concern with his sons as business managers.

The result was failure and premature death.
How foolish we are not to recognize what we are best fitted for and can perform, not only with ease but with pleasure, as masters of the craft.

More than one able man I have known has persisted in blundering in an office when he had great talent for the mill, and has worn himself out, oppressed with cares and anxieties, his life a continual round of misery, and the result at last failure.

I never regretted parting with any man so much as Mr.Kloman.His was a good heart, a great mechanical brain, and had he been left to himself I believe he would have been glad to remain with us.

Offers of capital from others--offers which failed when needed--turned his head, and the great mechanic soon proved the poor man of affairs.[33] [Footnote 33: Long after the circumstances here recited, Mr.Isidor Straus called upon Mr.Henry Phipps and asked him if two statements which had been publicly made about Mr.Carnegie and his partners in the steel company were true.