Intellectual Capital/Stewart 216-217

217 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote...If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within on year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to  himself that he is right in being disheartened and in complaining the rest of his life. There is a better path Emerson cried: A sturdy lad..keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls...He has not on chance, but a hundred chances.