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`` I wish to God I had more men in my office , '' said her father , `` who thought the same thing . Do you know , young lady , why it is that so many greyheads are holding clerk 's jobs ? Because clerks do not feel that the business is their own . The careless among them are working for five o'clock , and the keen among them are out for number one . Do you know if that boy keeps on thinking that the business is his he will own a big slice of it or something better before he quits . I confess I was greatly pleased that you failed to move him . '' `` All the same , he is awfully stubborn , '' said his daughter .