The Business Life; Or Straight Talks on BusinessI. Pitman & Sons, Limited, 1907 - 202 Seiten |
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... firm the Author is associated , and were only intended to form an opening for advertising matter . Since the cessa- tion of the series a very general wish has been expressed by numerous correspondents , with many of whom the Author is ...
... firm the Author is associated , and were only intended to form an opening for advertising matter . Since the cessa- tion of the series a very general wish has been expressed by numerous correspondents , with many of whom the Author is ...
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... Firm wishing to sell goods should Advertise them , and if other people are selling such goods , the Advertiser must seek to prove that his goods are the right ones . It is not sufficient to produce good stuff , nor is it enough to make ...
... Firm wishing to sell goods should Advertise them , and if other people are selling such goods , the Advertiser must seek to prove that his goods are the right ones . It is not sufficient to produce good stuff , nor is it enough to make ...
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... firm , in the absence of other data , by outward appearance . The opin- ion formed is often misleading ; for , since the neces- sity of making a ' show ' has become appreciated , mushroom businesses have sprung up , and have been kept ...
... firm , in the absence of other data , by outward appearance . The opin- ion formed is often misleading ; for , since the neces- sity of making a ' show ' has become appreciated , mushroom businesses have sprung up , and have been kept ...
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... firm says , in effect : - " You know just what we sell , and where to find us ; and you will come to us so long as ... firms have come to grief over this . It is always desirable to attract new customers , and it is better that they ...
... firm says , in effect : - " You know just what we sell , and where to find us ; and you will come to us so long as ... firms have come to grief over this . It is always desirable to attract new customers , and it is better that they ...
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... Firm is a good advertisement for it , because the Competitor seldom fails to advertise the fact that he is in competition with you . As a rule , he has nothing new to offer ; his only claim on the attention of the public being that he ...
... Firm is a good advertisement for it , because the Competitor seldom fails to advertise the fact that he is in competition with you . As a rule , he has nothing new to offer ; his only claim on the attention of the public being that he ...
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advantage Advertising bankruptcy court become better blame brain business letter capital carry cern chance character comes commercial competition competitors conceited cut-price difficulties duty earnest Economy employer employés everything excuse experience extras fact faculty failures fault feel firm gain give Credit goes grasp hand head honest honour human nature hustler idea industry invariably keep kind knowledge labour living wage look Luck machinery man's matter means ment mind minimum wage mistake ness never old Firm opportunity Persistency position possess Practical probably profit promises punctual Push qualities result rule run a business SIR ISAAC PITMAN Sir John Lubbock smart succeed sure Tact tell thing tion to-day trade trade secrets trades unions tradesman trouble true wait want of Principle wasted wealth whilst wisdom of Solomon word worry worth young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 123 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this man, go, and he goeth ; and to another, come, and he cometh ; and to my servant do this, and he doeth it.
Seite 60 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Seite 151 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Seite 65 - New times demand new measures and new men ; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
Seite 197 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 121 - No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will ; And blessed are the horny hands of toil ! The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until occasion tells him what to do ; And he who waits to have his task marked out Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.
Seite 59 - The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.
Seite 42 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both. Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie. A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Seite 202 - Professor Blackie, of the University of Edinburgh, said to a class of young men : " Money is not needful; power is not needful ; cleverness is not needful ; fame is not needful ; liberty is not needful ; even health is not the one thing needful ; but character alone is that which can truly save us, and if we are not saved in this sense, we must certainly be damned.
Seite 147 - In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As — -fail!