It is my own company.

Seems to me these fellows are selfish about it.

You think I'm a good business man, don't you ?" "I certainly do," agreed Mr.Stevens emphatically.
"Well, it stands to reason that if I have two hundred and sixty thousand dollars of common stock that isn't worth a picayune unless I make it worth par, I'll hustle; and if I make my common stock worth par, I'm making a fine, fat profit for these other fellows, to say nothing of the raising of their preferred stock from the value of fifty to a hundred dollars a share, and their common from nothing to a hundred." "That's all right, Sam," returned Mr.Stevens; "but you'll work just as hard to make your common worth par if you only have two hundred thousand; and there's a growing tendency on the part of capital to be able to keep a string on its own money.

Strange, but true." "All right," said Sam wearily.

"We won't argue that point any more just now; but will you invest fifty thousand ?" "I can't promise," said Stevens, and he walked out on the porch.