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 22
... natural aptitude - How some men are born for certain pursuits - Michael Angelo , Nelson and Bonaparte - How is skill acquired -- How can a parent ascertain for what trade his son is best suited - Claims of phrenologists - Trades that ...
... natural aptitude - How some men are born for certain pursuits - Michael Angelo , Nelson and Bonaparte - How is skill acquired -- How can a parent ascertain for what trade his son is best suited - Claims of phrenologists - Trades that ...
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... nature - Is there friendship in trade - How country merchants are captivated and made life - cus- tomers - Importance of keeping efficient clerks - What merchants generally fail to appreciate in their clerks - The secret of retaining ...
... nature - Is there friendship in trade - How country merchants are captivated and made life - cus- tomers - Importance of keeping efficient clerks - What merchants generally fail to appreciate in their clerks - The secret of retaining ...
Side 29
... Nature of insurance- Prudent inquiries to make before taking out a policy — When a man can insure property he does not own - Insurance by commis- sion merchants - Effect of misrepresenting or concealing a material fact - How the ...
... Nature of insurance- Prudent inquiries to make before taking out a policy — When a man can insure property he does not own - Insurance by commis- sion merchants - Effect of misrepresenting or concealing a material fact - How the ...
Side 32
... natural and adopted children - Of poor relations - Bequests to authors , in- ventors and faithful clerks - How to begin a will - Form of words to give personal property and real estate - Care required in describ- ing legatees - What is ...
... natural and adopted children - Of poor relations - Bequests to authors , in- ventors and faithful clerks - How to begin a will - Form of words to give personal property and real estate - Care required in describ- ing legatees - What is ...
Side 33
... natural sagacity , com- bined with experience and acute observation of character , as distinguished from that knowledge which is acquired from books or abstract speculation . It is to a certain degree synonymous with tact , and inspires ...
... natural sagacity , com- bined with experience and acute observation of character , as distinguished from that knowledge which is acquired from books or abstract speculation . It is to a certain degree synonymous with tact , and inspires ...
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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...