"Half a minute! Number two, the business man sells knowledge of men and affairs as opposed to the professor's knowledge of things only."
"The Lord has delivered you into my hands, Carstairs."
"I saw it as soon as I'd spoken."
"Well, let us acquire knowledge of men and affairs, instead of merely of things—engines."
"I admit that my conception of——"
"Chuck it."
"Well, you've made a good point."
"You're Harveyized steel, Carstairs, and it gives me immense satisfaction to see that I'm making some impression on you. Well, you may go on grinding away all your life, and if nobody knows of the knowledge you possess, you'll never get paid for it."
"But I will show it by the application of it in my work. The chief is bound to see it."
"Not a ha'porth, my boy. And if he does, the chances are that he'll depreciate it in the eyes of the world, or get you the sack, because he'll be afraid of you."