Common Sense in Business, Or, Practical Answers to Practical Questions on the True Principles and Laws of Success in Farming, Manufactures, Speculation and Buying and Selling Merchandise: With Some Suggestions on Making Wills and the Causes of Failures in BusinessClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878 - 378 sider |
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Side 28
... advances - His duty to follow the usages of trade - How a commis- sion agent should construe ambiguous orders - Mistake of a pork- merchant - When a factor is obliged to insure - What is his duty when he cannot insure - Keeping up ...
... advances - His duty to follow the usages of trade - How a commis- sion agent should construe ambiguous orders - Mistake of a pork- merchant - When a factor is obliged to insure - What is his duty when he cannot insure - Keeping up ...
Side 31
... advances to producers - The Rothschilds ' mis- take - When should a man fail - How to foretell approaching insolv- ency - Sargeant's advice to a man in embarrassed circumstances- What proposition for compromise will a debtor find most ...
... advances to producers - The Rothschilds ' mis- take - When should a man fail - How to foretell approaching insolv- ency - Sargeant's advice to a man in embarrassed circumstances- What proposition for compromise will a debtor find most ...
Side 35
... advance- ment in growth . If no man could have any right to his habitation except while he was actually within it , and another might take possession the moment he stepped out , there could be no motive for any one to provide more than ...
... advance- ment in growth . If no man could have any right to his habitation except while he was actually within it , and another might take possession the moment he stepped out , there could be no motive for any one to provide more than ...
Side 43
... advance wages . Capitalists , on the other hand , are interested in promoting the prosperity of labor , for well - paid laborers consume more , both of agricultural produce and manu- factured fabrics , than those poorly paid , and high ...
... advance wages . Capitalists , on the other hand , are interested in promoting the prosperity of labor , for well - paid laborers consume more , both of agricultural produce and manu- factured fabrics , than those poorly paid , and high ...
Side 58
... advance you from secretary to envoy , or from envoy to ambassador ; but your address , your air , your manner , if good , may . " Chesterfield wrote three volumes of letters to his son on the importance of manner as an aid to advance ...
... advance you from secretary to envoy , or from envoy to ambassador ; but your address , your air , your manner , if good , may . " Chesterfield wrote three volumes of letters to his son on the importance of manner as an aid to advance ...
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Side 205 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Side 69 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Side 123 - ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier,* to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught...
Side 111 - ... to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight. He might have made, for example, every thing we tasted, bitter; every thing we saw, loathsome; every thing we touched, a sting ; every smell a stench, and every sound a discord.
Side 80 - Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night. While Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Side 71 - There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries...
Side 81 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a- creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Side 332 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Side 111 - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our senses to be so many sores and pains to us, as they are now instruments of gratification and enjoyment: or by placing us amidst objects so ill-suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight.
Side 198 - ... except the buyer shall accept parv of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...