The Transaction of BusinessForbes, 1907 - 164 pages |
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Page xiii
... fact that there is a distinct literature of business is too little appreciated . Perhaps , as a class , we have been bending over the counter and the cost - sheet too diligently to see the finer fibers of our work ; we have re- garded ...
... fact that there is a distinct literature of business is too little appreciated . Perhaps , as a class , we have been bending over the counter and the cost - sheet too diligently to see the finer fibers of our work ; we have re- garded ...
Page xv
... facts and prin- ciples governing what is to many , if not all , the gist of business . It is an especial pleasure to have ... fact , ' tactful relations with customers . ' The three articles , Mr. Farson's ' Im- portance of Audits ' ; Mr ...
... facts and prin- ciples governing what is to many , if not all , the gist of business . It is an especial pleasure to have ... fact , ' tactful relations with customers . ' The three articles , Mr. Farson's ' Im- portance of Audits ' ; Mr ...
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... fact the discrepancy which you notice is nothing more than the usual difference in the ways in which different men set about the same object , even when they employ similar means for its accomplishment . For a difference of this kind ...
... fact the discrepancy which you notice is nothing more than the usual difference in the ways in which different men set about the same object , even when they employ similar means for its accomplishment . For a difference of this kind ...
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... fact . They think that they could easily answer all your objections , and that they should certainly succeed in persuading you , if they had an opportunity of discussing the matter orally ; and it may be of importance to remove this ...
... fact . They think that they could easily answer all your objections , and that they should certainly succeed in persuading you , if they had an opportunity of discussing the matter orally ; and it may be of importance to remove this ...
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... fact that of which he is not sure . What he says has the ring of sincerity , the hall - mark of pure gold . Men who split hairs with their conscience , who mislead others by deft , shrewd phras- ing which may be true in letter yet lying ...
... fact that of which he is not sure . What he says has the ring of sincerity , the hall - mark of pure gold . Men who split hairs with their conscience , who mislead others by deft , shrewd phras- ing which may be true in letter yet lying ...
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ability able action advice affairs ANALYZING A BUSINESS answer ARTHUR HELPS better bill bring business proposition cern character Chicago conceal concern conduct considered corporation COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE council counsel course danger deal decision depends dispatch duty ELBERT HUBBARD employees expect fact fail feel FRANCIS BACON give greater hard matter hear Hooker industrial interest interview John Farson judge judgment keep kind less Lincoln look man's Management of Agents manufacturing matter means mechanic men's ment method mind nature ness never opinion partner party perhaps personal equation persons point of cunning practical wisdom president profits question reason RELATIONS WITH CUSTOMERS require responsibility rience secrecy secret seldom sometimes speak spect speech success Suitors sure TACTFUL RELATIONS things tical tion Transaction of Business trust truth understand UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WIN FORTUNE wise words wrong YORK TRIBUNE young practical
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Page 149 - Sibylla's offer, which at first offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price...
Page 73 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action.
Page 32 - If you would work any man you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him ; or his ends, and so persuade him ; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him ; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Page 160 - I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out...
Page 149 - Nay, it were better to meet some dangers half way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches ; for if a man watch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep. On the other side, to be deceived with two long shadows, (as some have been, when the moon was low, and shone on their enemies...
Page 160 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying, that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have; given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 154 - There is a cunning, which we in England call " the turning of the cat in the pan ;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to Mm ; and, to say truth, it is not easy, when such a matter passed between two, to make it appear from which of them it first moved and began.
Page 162 - If you work for a man, in heaven 's name work for him ! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him — speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents.
Page 148 - There be three parts of business, the preparation ; the debate, or examination ; and the perfection; whereof, if you look for despatch, let the middle only be the work of many, and the first and last the work of few.
Page v - A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us, that a higher law than that of our will regulates events...