#Quotes #Careers #Industry #SowingAndReaping #CharlesGoodyear

“In reflecting upon the past, as relates to these branches of industry, the writer is not disposed to repine, and say that he has planted, and others have gathered the fruits. The advantages of a career in life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents, as is too often done. Man has just cause for regret when he sows and no one reaps.”

Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) who invented vulcanization, after a fashion, but died penniless.