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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... hundred thousand copies were disposed of in the United States and Great Britain . Subsequently he prepared a volume on the laws of Business , in the novel form of Legal Advice , and of this , also , many editions were sold . Since these ...
... hundred thousand copies were disposed of in the United States and Great Britain . Subsequently he prepared a volume on the laws of Business , in the novel form of Legal Advice , and of this , also , many editions were sold . Since these ...
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... hundreds of firms , whose names were then current in the market , and honored in bank parlors , have disappeared , some cut down like Jonah's gourd in a night , others , after many struggles , overwhelmed in the billows of insolvency ...
... hundreds of firms , whose names were then current in the market , and honored in bank parlors , have disappeared , some cut down like Jonah's gourd in a night , others , after many struggles , overwhelmed in the billows of insolvency ...
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... hundreds of worthy families have been consigned to death in the work- house , that a few proud land - owners might add to the area of their worthless parks . Great fortunes , in fact , are rarely a blessing to society , and in a Utopian ...
... hundreds of worthy families have been consigned to death in the work- house , that a few proud land - owners might add to the area of their worthless parks . Great fortunes , in fact , are rarely a blessing to society , and in a Utopian ...
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... hundreds of young business men , by acts of kindness extended to them , resolved that he would never become rich , and drew up the following covenant with himself , or vow , and it is said strictly adhered to it : " By the grace of God ...
... hundreds of young business men , by acts of kindness extended to them , resolved that he would never become rich , and drew up the following covenant with himself , or vow , and it is said strictly adhered to it : " By the grace of God ...
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... Hundreds of men go to their graves in obscurity , who have been obscure only because they lacked the pluck to make a first effort ; and who , could they only have resolved to begin , would have aston- ished the world by their ...
... Hundreds of men go to their graves in obscurity , who have been obscure only because they lacked the pluck to make a first effort ; and who , could they only have resolved to begin , would have aston- ished the world by their ...
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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...