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id: 21291
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Sesame and Lilies"--these are the books that make young men and maidens so trustworthy that the Marshall Fields


id: 16106
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | K | | 222,222| 22,222 | 22,222 | L | | 25,000,000| | 25,000,000 | M | | 1,000,000| 100,000 | 1,000,000 | N | | 1,000,000| 100,000 | 1,100,000 | O | | 16,644,220|


id: 21502
type: ORG
entity:
  Crops, Clearings, Immigration, Total Foreign Trade, Money, Failures, Commodity Prices, Railroad Earnings,


id: 7309
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Typographical Make-up of Business Letters 14: Getting a Uniform Policy and Quality in Letters 15:


id: 7309
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  "The Aristocrat of Smoking Tobacco" I have produced an article that is in fact the best tobacco money can buy.


id: 37924
type: LAW
entity:
  Chapter I THE MODERN BUSINESS COURSE AND SERVICE As Dean of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance


id: 37924
type: ORG
entity:
  Mary Colorado College Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Denver University Drake University Duquesne University Elmira College Georgetown University


id: 37924
type: ORG
entity:
  Washington Syracuse University Toledo University Trinity College Tulane University Vanderbilt University Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of Alabama University of Akron University


id: 37924
type: ORG
entity:
  Arizona University of British Columbia University of California University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado University of Illinois University of Indiana University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Nebraska University of Oregon University of Pittsburgh University of Texas University of Washington University of Wisconsin


id: 37924
type: ORG
entity:
  the International Committee on Business Methods and Industrial Relations, Industrial Association of Rotary Clubs


id: 38921
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Double A"--she must rummage through the entire drawer until she came to a pair which had the required size neatly marked


id: 37748
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Successful Physician 1 CHAPTER II Attitude Toward Debtors 11 CHAPTER III Proper Time to Collect 16 CHAPTER IV Books


id: 16256
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Three Types of Management--Possible Psychological Studies of Management--Plan of Psychological Study


id: 16256
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  in Scientific Management--Field of Application of the Task Idea--Qualifications of the Synthesist--Summary: (a) Effect of Analysis and Synthesis on the Work


id: 16256
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Welfare Work"--Welfare Under Traditional Management--Welfare Work Under Traditional Management--Welfare Under Transitory Management--Welfare Work Under Transitory Management--


# bib

id: 15248
title: Success (Second Edition)
author: Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
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  to the man or woman whom ambition stirs to make a success of life. is perhaps the easiest of the virtues for the successful man of affairs is something deep down in the nature of a successful man of affairs certain: no man can achieve success who is not strict with himself in this matter; nor is it a bad thing for an aspiring man of business to be going to be a great man of business. man who attains, by the practice of these rules, a great fortune, may For every man youth tramples on in the arrogance of his successful Every young man who enters business will at some time or another meet a judgment can ever lead the man of affairs to success. successful business man plays the game with vigour, nerve, and sinew, which are acquired by the successful man of affairs.


id: 14589
title: Certain Success
author: Hawkins, Norval A.
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  [Sidenote: Certain Success With the Selling Process] [Sidenote: Know Your Prospect''s Idea] can soon develop _skill in actually selling_ to other men true ideas of you know HOW to sell true ideas of your best capability in your chosen unless he _uses_ "Certain Success" and "The Selling Process" _as working Master salesmen of ideas about "goods" use _particular selling goods" to the _mind_ of the man to whom you wish to sell your best [Sidenote: No Normal Man Lacks Qualifications For Success] sales-man gets his ideas _out_ of your physical salesman, and _shows can impress on any other man true ideas of your best capabilities_. and power of the man to whom he wants to sell his "goods." The sales skillful salesman, sure of your power to sell true ideas of your best "prospect," just as the salesman of goods presents the idea of _value_ [Sidenote: Fitting Ideas To Prospect''s Mind]


id: 16106
author: Bastiat, Frédéric
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  value; while labor, iron, coal, lands, food, capital, all being little to produce an orange by _direct_ labor in America, one day''s work, or market, but to the [time and] labor required for their production._[B] pay more for wheat, because, to produce it, Nature requires more labor A protective duty is a tax directed against foreign produce, but which goods sold in New York, a net profit of two millions was the result of from foreign countries with less labor than if we produced it the price of labor rises with that of the articles protected. Capital and labor being given, the result is, a sum of production, competition of foreign labor, it is not less so, to protect human do not injure _human labor_, nor importations _national industry_." "But this abundance must be the product of _national labor_. manufactured articles would be no more the product of labor than

title:
  What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat''s "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader


id: 20531
author: nan
txt: ./txt/20531.txt
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  Export Trade of United States and Great Britain Compared 198 important contract requiring cash in advance he sends a bank draft, if State laws regarding stock companies differ very largely. At different times the United States government has issued bonds to Great Britain''s imports from the United States her goods principally from Great Britain, the United States, France, of the total product is exported to Great Britain and the United [Illustration: Export trade of the United States and Great Britain It is the business of a bank to loan money to responsible persons If you wish to use your cheque to pay a note due at some other bank If you wish to use your cheque to pay a note due at some other bank clearing-houses, for in no country is the bank cheque so generally law in all of the other States is otherwise, and a bank for a good

title:
  Up To Date Business Including Lessons in Banking, Exchange, Business Geography, Finance, Transportation and Commercial Law Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)


id: 21291
title: Pushing to the Front
author: Marden, Orison Swett
txt: ./txt/21291.txt
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  let a college education spoil him for practical, every-day life; a man One great need for the world to-day is for men and women who are good Mr. Bright said: "There is not in Great Britain a poor man''s home that has shoulder and said, "Young man, your bread and butter''s cut for life." The great things of the world have not been done by men of large means. have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, A great man has said that no man will be content to live a half life work his way up to the position of a man of great influence as a United We know of a young man who has a great deal of natural ability for life-work of one thing, we see on every hand hundreds of young men and


id: 20161
title: Sophisms of the Protectionists
author: Bastiat, Frédéric
txt: ./txt/20161.txt
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  his reach the largest possible quantity of produce; time and labor value; while labor, iron, coal, lands, food, capital, all being little produce an orange by _direct_ labor in France, one day''s work, or its time, labor, effort, for a fixed result, for a certain number of brings a saw with him; I pay him two francs for his day''s labor, and he great object of all labor, the universal good, in a word, _Consumption_, "Labor and Nature concur in different proportions, according to country from foreign countries with less labor than if we produced it ourselves, price of labor rises with that of the articles protected. think that the price of labor, like every thing else, is governed by the Capital and labor being given, the result is, a sum of production, can be no doubt that protective tariffs, by forcing capital and labor to


id: 22418
title: Dollars and Sense
author: Hunter, William Crosbie
txt: ./txt/22418.txt
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summary:
  The young business man who says "I want no credit, I buy and sell for Credit is a subsidy, and it stands the hustling business man in good In every business the man who sells things, who brings in the profits, The shrewd business man won''t let profits slip away if he can help it, The only real success that comes to the business man is the profits at The successful business man some day wakes up to the fact that his the man who makes it his business to sell one class of goods. The successful business man should keep his money where it is is the man who works hard during business hours, and then goes home and In these days the business man likes to deal with a salesman who is Keep busy, young man, do the first thing that comes handy.


id: 21502
title: Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They Are and Whence They Come
author: Babson, Roger Ward
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summary:
  These things which we look upon as of great value:--the stocks, bonds, little faith and vision, they could have developed that water-power, existed one thousand years ago more raw materials than we have to-day, industrial development of America than the sons of bankers? In fact, statistics show us that the very things which most people think A few days ago I was present at a dinner of business men in Boston who soul owes this germ of faith to some little country church with a white in God. They got, through faith, "that something" which men to-day are situation is a great problem to-day facing the Christian business men of in order to develop the human soul in other men, we have captains of industry in America, the men who head the various greatest nations, depends on these fundamentals,--integrity, faith, industry, fundamentals of prosperity,--faith, integrity, industry and brotherly


id: 29562
title: The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising
author: Kaufman, Herbert
txt: ./txt/29562.txt
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summary:
  Newspaper advertising is to business, what hands are to a clock. Newspaper advertising is the cheapest channel of communication ever Advertising creates _a good will_ equal to the cost of the publicity. Advertising renders the _business_ stronger than the _man_--independent A business which is _not_ advertised _must_ rely upon the _personality_ The public _does not want to know the man_ who owns the store--it isn''t advertisement in a newspaper with the most readers and the most much so to put its advertising into newspapers which are distributed time it took to fill an establishment which advertised _twice_ as long Always remember that the advertising sections of newspapers are no People read his advertising to discover what your buyers have just The advertiser who displays lack of judgment in selecting the newspapers Buying advertising circulation is very much like ordering a steak--if _advertisement_ gets, but from circulation _that gets people to buy_.


id: 28575
author: Black, Madeleine
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  Covent Garden market serve as great wholesale terminals, connected more On these central meat markets there is a _profit of about $100,000_. On the wholesale and retail meat, fruit, vegetable and fish market at _On the entire municipal market enterprises of the city there is a Covent Garden, London''s great fruit, flower and vegetable market, is market is maintained by stand rentals and administrative charges and by The Fish Section of the Great Municipal Market of the German Capital.] Steam fishing boats using the market quays pay 48 cents for 24 hours'' open market, where stands are rented at 5 cents a day. Sixty per cent of the stands in the market halls are rented by the Altogether this great terminal market has cost the city more than Terminal Market of La Halle cost the city $886,980. Both producers and dealers sell at these markets, all their supplies

title:
  A Terminal Market System: New York''s Most Urgent Need Some Observations, Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets


id: 29276
title: Morals in Trade and Commerce
author: Anderson, Frank B.
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summary:
  upon the right side of the great issues of the day, to uphold honor and a self-evident fact that we must take human honesty for granted, that universal expectation of fair dealing that makes business possible and, in fact, it is this universal expectation of good behavior that makes worst--I believe that the great majority of men and women in business corporation business. on a sinister meaning, and we are asked to look upon the corporations change his nature just because he turns his business into a corporation combination of men that has been formed under the sanction of law to As I have already said, there are some corporations that break laws, publications and politicians use the word "corporation" as though it determined all problems of right or wrong, and it is still the communal laws passed to prevent them and then public opinion, finding no relief,


id: 29641
title: The business career in its public relations
author: Shaw, Albert
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summary:
  public aspects of trade and commerce in our modern life. standards of business life are in conflict irreconcilable with true practice these professions not also business men? public-spirited in a general sense, each professional man should, in It is for the modern business world to recognize the conditions world of poverty, of disease, of depraved public life, of low morals in the conditions and relations of business life. All modern business life, then, is the result of this growth of But for the modern business man who cares to take the life of a practical man of business affairs upon a broad and conditions under which the economic and business life may operate coöperative organization of business life go on side by side, related The modern business man should regard good government things the modern business man must have upon his conscience. and to the trained ethical sense of the modern business man to perfect


id: 29674
title: Higher Education and Business Standards
author: Hotchkiss, Willard E. (Willard Eugene)
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summary:
  Business standards must be discussed from the standpoint of efficiency, for the measure of public welfare in which his business results; and ideals and our policies for educating future business men we should try of private business or of public policy, they bear the same testimony it is setting a new standard of business efficiency. method of approach has long had large use in business; but the The difficulty that business men find in applying scientific method business, but forces now at work are making powerfully for a scientific A second force making for a scientific approach to business is found in business and are themselves contributing important scientific results. business policies as a result of their more fundamental analysis. future business men is a mastery of scientific method as a means of scientific method as used in analyzing business facts. the material and the human facts of business.


id: 31494
title: The Young Man in Business
author: Bok, Edward William
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summary:
  statistician, that of the young men in business in New York City, sixty Now, as every young man naturally desires to make a business success, The chances for business success for any young man are not wanting. The average young man in business to-day is nothing more nor less than possible for every young man to rise above his position, and it makes The average young man is extremely anxious to get into a business business house has in it the possibility of a young man''s bettering there is no such thing in a young man''s life or his business success. consideration, when a young man thinks of going into business, is not A young man in business nowadays, with an ambition to be successful, behind him, that makes a successful business man. five years, yes, the first ten years, of a young man''s business life,


id: 31073
title: How Department Stores Are Carried On
author: Phillips, W. B. (Wesley Briggs)
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summary:
  space secured, and "The Advertising Department" is ready for business. the selection of goods and in the direct management of his department, Space is allotted to each department, and all goods bought must pass checked, and goods are then placed in proper department space ready for The mail-order trade as associated with Department Stores began in a look over the catalogue, select the goods required and mail your order, check is sent with the goods to the mail-order sorting section, and the as orders are numbered consecutively as they are received, the goods are order, and this number appearing on his checks only, all his goods find representing all goods on this card are received the order is complete when the order was first received and before goods were bought, may now The payment for goods purchased by the mail-order department is As each department secures the goods required, the mail


id: 21622
title: Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power
author: Marden, Orison Swett
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  how great men started, their struggles, their long waitings, amid want One great need of the world to-day is for men and women who are good a living lie, because no man on earth could be as great as he looked." in life in which a great mind lives years of enjoyment in a single Thousands of men of great native ability have been lost to the world The world always makes way for the man with a purpose in him, like life work of one thing, we see on every hand hundreds of young men and Christ knew that one affection rules in man''s life when he said, "No these waters twenty-five years," said a young man to the captain of a the great men of the Revolution when he said, "Is life so dear, or Think of a young man just starting out in life to conquer the world


id: 23547
title: Sam Lambert and the New Way Store: A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks
author: Unknown
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  SAM LAMBERT AND THE NEW WAY STORE Sam Lambert had the best clothing store in Medeena County--a corner "Among the clerks in the best and biggest of stores there are ten good spectacles and a pre-occupied air came into the store, asked for Mr. Lambert and was directed to the rear where Stucker was showing Sam the odd trousers stored in case-goods boxes under the tables. "The business of a store is to sell goods. store to complete his purchases--the more goods you will sell him. Lambert store with a modern selling arrangement and New Way fixtures Wardrobes, and he didn''t like to admit that the Lambert Store didn''t merchant''s stock by the way he treats it, so that the store with New Way Wardrobes as a feature is not only the most progressive store, but to the Grand Opening, and Sam Lambert''s New Way Store is doing the


id: 14444
title: The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
author: Defoe, Daniel
txt: ./txt/14444.txt
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extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  For a young man coming out of his time to have his shop or warehouse come out of their times better finished for business and trade than they there is a kind of slang in trade, which a tradesman ought to know, as The like happens often when a tradesman turns his hand from one trade to In the mean time, the tradesman''s proper business is in his shop or the man lost his trade, his shop was entirely neglected, the time which Suppose the young tradesman buys ten thousand pounds'' value of goods on So easy a thing is it for a tradesman to lose his credit in trade, and necessary people in their trades, and their business is to set goods off OF CREDIT IN TRADE, AND HOW A TRADESMAN OUGHT TO VALUE AND IMPROVE IT: OF CREDIT IN TRADE, AND HOW A TRADESMAN OUGHT TO VALUE AND IMPROVE IT:


id: 20513
title: How to Succeed; Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
author: Marden, Orison Swett
txt: ./txt/20513.txt
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  One great need of the world to-day is for men and women who are good "I don''t know how great men you may be," said the Guinea man, as he Think of a man, the grandest of God''s creations, spending his life-time The great things of the world have not been done by men of large means. work his way up to the position of a man of great influence as a United school of life, the great man-developer, the character-builder; that "I do believe God wanted a grand poem of that man," said George "One great cause of failure of young men in business," says Carnegie, "If a man has no regard for the time of other men," said Horace Greeley, "No true man can live a half life," says Phillips Brooks, "when he has "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is


id: 4335
author: Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)
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  to the effects of the present prices of corn, together with the considerable fall in the price of corn could not take place, without considerable fall in the price of corn, and of the expected real question respects the great loss of national wealth, attributed the price of corn considerably above the average of the rest of home, the corn of France may make it fall below a growing price, that a free trade in corn was calculated to produce steadier prices starving, in a country where the money price of corn is very low. money price of corn would give the labourer a very great advantage Let us suppose the common price of corn, for four years out of If the ports were open, the usual price of corn would certainly the country may not be increased by the fall in the price of corn,

title:
  The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn Intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws"


id: 4334
author: Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)
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  and of a rise or fall in the price of corn, on the agriculture and and of a rise or fall in the price of corn, on the agriculture and price of corn, occasioned by an unusually prosperous state of our of corn should determine the price of labour under precisely the countries, for many years to come, to afford us supplies of corn, in the freedom of importation the prices of corn were equalized, and progressive countries, the average price of corn is never higher price of corn in the country where the bounty is granted be not effects of so great and sudden a fall in the price of corn, as would occasioned by the high comparative prices of corn and labour, and under a high price of corn and labour; but this must have happened growing price of corn in this country was not higher than in the

title:
  Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country


id: 6167
title: Business Hints for Men and Women
author: Calhoun, A. R. (Alfred Rochefort)
txt: ./txt/6167.txt
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  If a man''s business reputation is good, and the banks keep well it to pay a certain sum of money to the person named in the check A person having money in bank and wishing to draw for his own use, When a person places money in a bank with no intention of checking The usual way of securing the payment of a note given in business If a business man borrows from a bank on his note, he must pay for maker of the note, as he would have for money loaned or goods National bank notes are received in all business transactions, A post office money order, like a check or draft, may be Banks receive transferred money orders as if they were cash Express companies issue money orders much as does the Post Office live stock, all money on hand and in banks; other men''s notes, not


id: 11090
title: Industrial Progress and Human Economics
author: Hartness, James
txt: ./txt/11090.txt
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summary:
  best way to use his own energies, and since he must work in way that will bring the largest value for a day''s work. chance to produce a large value for a day''s work is where best his work, a successful organization should use the most effective Special ability, skill and team work are only acquired by long application to a given work, man acquires a special aptitude. Industries and the workers go forward by actual work, not on Why some men try to manage industrial plants regardless of the combined work and energy of all the men in the organization that best way for man to work and while we must labor to eliminate the Right Placing of Men. The management''s chief business should be to take man as he is The progressive man who actually directs work along such lines is progressive move, just because the new machine works better than


id: 7309
title: Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
author: Anonymous
txt: ./txt/7309.txt
cache: ./cache/7309.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  selling appeal to different prospects and get orders by letter-the_ MOST IMPORTANT TOOL _in modern business--good letter writing is makes a dozen calls a day is doing good work; letters can present a sales letter as a reason for interesting the reader in his goods. he writes good letters only when he gets mad--which is his way of Another mail-order house sending out form letters under one-cent attention in the opening paragraph of a sales letter, he is certain Here is an illustration taken from a letter sent out by a mail-order written letter works up to a climax and the order should be secured This letter was sent to lady customers by a mail-order house: and the letter before it is read, it is good business to make both average business man, although the letter may come from an entirely correspondent knows that the reader of the letter is interested and


id: 8000
title: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
author: Carey, Henry Charles
txt: ./txt/8000.txt
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summary:
  the improvement of his land, and the returns to labour increase. thus enables men to economize labour and to increase production. land, by men occupying towns and cities placed among the producers. labour from the great and profitable home market, it tended greatly to and exchanging the products of other lands the labour and capital that return to labour, and that as population increased, men were compelled price of that important product of Southern labour and land. The value of land, like that of labour, therefore increases as we pass rights in land acquired by the people of India by all the labour of When the labour market is near, land acquires value and men tendency of prices, whether of land, labour, or their products, is demand for labour in that country drove the poor people to England in produce from that market tends to raising the value of land and labour


id: 6580
title: Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson''s Bay Company
author: Hudson''s Bay Company
txt: ./txt/6580.txt
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summary:
  Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company of Adventurers taken, he shall and may execute and use the said Office of Governor of for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company, whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time or Deputy Governor of the said Company, shall have and exercise the shall and may be_ lawful, to and for the said Governor and Company, shall and may be_ lawful, to and for the said Governor and Company, Our Heirs and Successors, grant to and with the said Governor and Company and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,


id: 8581
title: The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money
author: Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
txt: ./txt/8581.txt
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extension: .txt
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summary:
  at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. says "they are like the man who bought a penny herring for his family''s "there is a man who has an income of fifty thousand dollars per annum, As no man can succeed in business unless he has a brain to a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his out of ten of the rich men of our country to-day, started out in life Here is a man that is worth twenty thousand dollars; he is doing a But the trouble is, this man is getting money too easily. thing, therefore, at any time, to let people get possession of money So with the young man starting in business; let him understand the value


id: 35870
author: Grant Suttie, George, Sir
txt: ./txt/35870.txt
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summary:
  The average price of grain in Britain has, for a long series of years, neighbouring nations; 3d, The higher rate of the real wages of labour in Britain, has any connection whatever with the higher average price of the higher average price of grain in Britain arises from scarcity, the food, as proved by the higher average price of grain in Britain, when in Britain has been the sole cause of the higher average price of grain consider how far the higher average price of grain in Britain may arise grain in Britain above the average price of the Continent, any attempt price of grain and the rate of real wages _in Britain and in those higher average price of grain in Britain--the cultivation of poor land. higher price of grain may so clearly be produced by other causes besides of taxation in Britain, and the higher rate of real wages, have a very

title:
  Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne on the Cause of the Higher Average Price of Grain in Britain than on the the Continent


id: 37748
title: How to Collect a Doctor Bill
author: Davis, Franklyn Pierre
txt: ./txt/37748.txt
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extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  thereon, not exceeding two thousand dollars in value, is exempt from homestead of the value of two thousand dollars exempt from execution and value of one thousand dollars, shall be exempt from execution so long as value of fifty dollars; the necessary food for all animals exempt from exemption for any one person not exceeding five thousand dollars. for the use of the family, not exceeding fifty dollars in value. hundred dollars in value in actual use by the debtor or by his family. exempt property; life insurance not exceeding ten thousand dollars debtor''s family, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars; family homestead not exceeding one thousand dollars in value. family, three hundred dollars in value, which is also exempt. in value, provided no sum exceeding four hundred dollars shall be exempt exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars, exempt from execution or exceeding in value fifteen hundred dollars, exempt from execution or


id: 37924
title: Forging Ahead in Business
author: Alexander Hamilton Institute (U.S.)
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  As Dean of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, As Dean of New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, The Modern Business Course and Service is a systematic, time-saving method The Modern Business Course and Service is conducted by an organization _The Institute Staff_ actively conducts the Modern Business Course and The Modern Business Course and Service brings to a subscriber the The Modern Business Course and Service covers the essential subjects on An enrolment for the Modern Business Course and Service covers a period of arranged the subjects treated in the Modern Business Course and Service in companies are enrolled for the Modern Business Course and Service. states why the Modern Business Course and Service is helpful without being In the Modern Business Course and Service the study of advertising is New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance.


id: 36939
author: Common sense (Writer), active 1813
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  proof of the interest the public take in the question of a Free Trade; follows that the India Company being possessed of a monopoly, does follows that the India Company being possessed of a monopoly, does intending to make a monopoly of the trade to India, there were in fact that the East India Company is a monopoly, and injures trade by The trade to India, in its present state, produces a great influx of consider that the French had an East India Company in 1789, and that by French East India trade, fell, and no one rose in its place, neither India Company, as the articles brought by it have not increased in Company carry British manufactures out to India at about 40_s._ per serve the East India Company, but the country itself--Ministers want In conclusion then, MONOPOLY IS NOT ALWAYS INJURIOUS.--THE EAST INDIA COMPANY DOES NOT POSSESS A MONOPOLY.--GREAT CHANGES will be ATTENDED

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  Free Trade with India An Enquiry into the True State of the Question at Issue Between His Majesty''s Ministers, the Honorable the East India Company, and the Public at Large, on the Justice and Policy of a Free Trade to India


id: 37048
author: Anonymous
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  "That no dividend shall be made by the said company, for, or in respect "That it shall not be lawful, for any general court of the said company, dividend shall be made, by any general court, of any of the said more than one half yearly dividend, shall be made by one general court." legislature should enact a law, to regulate the making of dividends, time of making the act, the dividend even of five _per cent._ was proved _per cent._ dividend declared to be due the 5th of July. declared, that they would make a dividend on the 5th of July, then next India dividends have been declared by the company, when, how, for what months, under the resolution, that declared a dividend for six, or would straining the law, makeing an act of parliament say it meant July, when therefore declare any dividend till the Christmas court, as by the said

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  A Caution to the Directors of the East-India Company With Regard to Their Making the Midsummer Dividend of Five Per Cent. Without Due Attention to a Late Act of Parliament, and a By-law of Their Own


id: 39761
title: The Knack of Managing
author: Urquhart, Lewis K.
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  business or to a job is the KNACK OF MANAGING. Actually to know your business or your job demands ANALYSIS. The production manager in the shoe factory analyzed his job correctly worked right back to his "Number 1" job--getting more customers in. manages a steel mill, a punch-press department or a time-study job--must and then, while the order was in work, decided he wanted half the goods shipped on time, or making him responsible for working out a new you." But it is not good management when turning a job over to a Up to a certain point, every time they deputized their work, that the right hand was busy all the time....] things as it is to the manager of a business with ten or a hundred or a method of treating her work as a responsible piece of business, it put Wherever you find a successful manager, whether running a big business


id: 41510
title: The Psychology of Salesmanship
author: Atkinson, William Walker
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  personally know every man to whom we wish to sell goods. some like to call psychology, so far as it concerns advertising." Mr. French has well expressed the idea of the important part played in must learn to want and earnestly desire the good things of life, and to suggest the thing that the Salesman has had in his mind all the time. it was a good thing for the customer that the salesman was calling on goods; the appearance of the salesman--all these things instinctively the prospect forms a hasty general idea of the thing or person, either Interest of the prospect, the Salesman must present things, ideas or the desirability of the thing to any man--how it will work for good; how point is that (1) _the thing is good_; (2) _the prospect needs it_; and this strong point sink into the prospect''s mind, the Salesman then says,


id: 33088
title: Putnam''s Handy Law Book for the Layman
author: Bolles, Albert Sidney
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  real and personal property without requiring his authority to be in ordinary rights of person and property he looks to the state for common law they were entitled to purchase, own and sell personal nothing was said about payment, the law would require him to pay a the owner of land might sell it to a purchaser a second time who knew land shall be considered as personal property for all purposes, then The mortgage usually states a time for paying the debt, and if the person with whom he had contracted for the goods, the law will not =Sale.=--By a contract to sell goods the seller agrees to transfer the capacity to make a contract, he must, by the general Sales Act, pay a property to said ________ against the lawful claims of all persons 3. The authorized capital stock of said corporation shall be (state


id: 32384
author: Defoe, Daniel
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  Henries; manufactures were planted, navigation increased, the people began which England above all nations in the world should improve the advantages On the other hand, the people of England have run up their manufactures to tell us; the trade of our woollen manufacture being evidently increased encouragement to our people, to increase and improve their trade; and the People of England for Increase of their Commerce, and Improvement of goods, and that the demand of English manufactures in particular increases their woollen manufactures; when it is apparent they work up all the wool to ruin the manufacturers, not improve the trade. is it, that we do not improve this trade, and increase the consumption of people of England increase the home consumption of their woollen trade of the kingdom; if our wearing foreign silk manufactures did increasing trade in general; I say I am for encouraging new manufactures

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  An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures Whether the Present Uncertainty of Affairs Issues in Peace or War


id: 38921
title: The Romance of a Great Store
author: Hungerford, Edward
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  in the days when Macy''s was young, in the average store one bargained Nowadays in the great department stores they order this entire business private office in the Macy store, coming north with it from Fourteenth quite early in the progress of the planning for the new Macy store that In its wake there came uptown the other department-stores of New York; Macy store is little and far between these days--save possibly in the department-stores of New York should be kept open evenings--some Today, however, space on the main floor of the larger stores in New York large store in the New York metropolitan district, Macy''s for years has of the receiving department of the Macy store. department-store as we know it in New York and other large cities of the The moment that a new employee comes into the Macy store his or her department-stores of New York.


id: 43855
title: Franklin''s Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved"
author: Franklin, Benjamin
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  publishing the Almanacks called "Poor Richard," introduces Father the wise is enough," as Poor Richard says.'' They joined in desiring him of," as Poor Richard says.--How much more than is necessary do we spend that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. wise," as Poor Richard says. leisure?" I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, "Employ will sink a great ship," as Poor Richard says; and again, "Who dainties the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says. putting in, soon comes to the bottom," as Poor Richard says; and then, a borrowing, goes a sorrowing," as Poor Richard says; and, indeed, so It is, however, a folly soon punished: for, as Poor Richard says, is lying, the first is running in debt," as Poor Richard says; and learn in no other," as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for it your knuckles," as Poor Richard says.''


id: 44144
title: Protection and Communism
author: Bastiat, Frédéric
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  Bastiat may have produced on the public mind of France it is not easy ''Exchange is a natural right, like property. If property is incompatible with the right of labour, and if the right of labour is founded upon the same principle as Protection, what the particular form of the right of labour, M. raise up, in opposition to his views, the principle of property itself. you--Do not act with inconsistency, and deny the right of labour on the the right of labour, you would violate the property of the rich to the Property, Communism--let us take a little from both, Protection is not opposed to the principle of property. perhaps, the system of Protection rests on the principle of Communism. the principle of right is as if you said, ''Communism or spoliation, only triumphed by placing the right of property on its true principles, Protection and the right of property?


id: 44145
title: Economic Sophisms
author: Bastiat, Frédéric
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  theory, and, in order to favour producers generally, we raise prices To maintain that human labour will ever come to want employment, meaning, "The results of labour constitute the wealth of a people." No, Saint-Cricq, France was obliged to expend sixteen days'' labour in order A protective duty is a tax directed against a foreign product; but product, in order to raise its cost price at Paris to 40 francs; and we word, they accuse free trade of being injurious to _national labour?_ price than a certain number of men could do by manual labour, is, in not hurtful to human labour, nor the importation of foreign products to "Labour constitutes all the wealth of a people," he says; "to protect represents the cost of production, that is to say, the labour worked Free labour directed to the production of sugar will lower its price


id: 47148
title: "Boy Wanted": A Book of Cheerful Counsel
author: Waterman, Nixon
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  [Sidenote: Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true [Sidenote: A man''s own good breeding is the best security against other [Sidenote: There is one thing in this world better than making a [Sidenote: A man who dares waste an hour of time has not discovered the [Sidenote: All that is great in man comes through work, and civilization [Sidenote: The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for [Sidenote: I don''t think much of a man who is not wiser to-day than he [Sidenote: The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to So in the world''s big life-school, the man who finds time to think [Sidenote: It is no man''s business whether he is a genius or not; work [Sidenote: Down in the busy thoroughfares are boys the world shall know


id: 42241
title: Commercial Law
author: Hill, Richard William
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  of property for his promise, no contract can be made by the person One of the contracting parties may have acted in perfect good faith, personal property time is regarded by the law as more important than in third person affects the rights of a party to a contract. agent, is simply an application of the general law of contracts, but as PRINCIPAL BOUND TO THIRD PERSONS BY AUTHORIZED ACTS OF AGENT.--Now let subject-matter under the law of principal and agent is contracts, while form a corporation under the laws of the State of New York. State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts. contract whereby the seller agrees to transfer the property in goods to WARRANTY OF TITLE IMPLIED IN SALES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.--In the case of the law may be on the same matter in the State where the contract was


id: 43667
title: Extracts Relating to Mediaeval Markets and Fairs in England
author: Douglas-Irvine, Helen
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  day on which King Edward lived and died, there was a market held on William the king came, and the market was held on Sunday. has now taken a market, which was situated there in the days of King _Grant of a market and fair to William of Lancaster._ to cause that the said William have the market and fair according to _Remission of the price of the right to hold a market and fair._ for the fee of a charter of fair and market granted in the twenty-third Gild shall stand on market days behind the said sellers of bread, town, as the king has granted that they may hold a market there every market, and they have prayed the king that they may hold the fair lord the king, in a certain market which had been lately held after London) shall from henceforth go to market or in the king''s highway,


id: 46489
title: Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 03 (of 10)
author: American School of Correspondence
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  Contracts of Infants.= A person under legal age is known in law as make contracts involving the sale or leasing of real property. is the agent liable personally on this contract? is the agent liable personally on this contract? becomes a corporation, it is liable on an implied contract to pay for organization of a corporation by those persons purchasing the property with sale of personal property, and in connection with contracts of Sale Defined.= A transfer of title of personal property is to be a contract by which the title to personal property is transferred to personal property, and a contract to make a sale, must be borne in that in a contract of sale of personal property, title or ownership of personal property title passes to the purchaser, while possession mortgage of personal property is a contract, and must be supported provide that contracts for the sale of personal property involving


id: 46545
title: Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 04 (of 10)
author: American School of Correspondence
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  of Double Entry --Classes of Account Books--Recording Balance--Sample Ledger Accounts--Treatment of Cash Discounts --Profit and Loss--Merchandise Inventory Accounts--Balance Sheet and Officers--Dividends--Closing Transfer Books--Sale of Stock he pays us money, we credit his account, and debit cash. book are credited to the sales account, completing the double entry. license fees paid on account of property owned or business transacted. sales account having a credit balance represents a profit because it [Illustration: Closing Entries, Trading and Profit and Loss Accounts] Close the books into the proper accounts, showing gross and net profit [Illustration: Cash Book Including Bank Account] _Stock Ledger._ This is the book in which an account is kept with each On the books of a corporation an account called capital stock When this stock is paid for, the entry in the cash book on the debit Make all necessary entries in general books, showing ledger accounts


id: 46786
title: Why I Believe in Poverty as the Richest Experience That Can Come to a Boy
author: Bok, Edward William
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  AS THE RICHEST EXPERIENCE THAT CAN COME TO A BOY AS THE RICHEST EXPERIENCE THAT CAN COME TO A BOY I MAKE my living trying to edit the "Ladies'' Home Journal." And because must live within my husband''s income of eight hundred dollars a year, men and their wives who know what that means: for a man to try to "come we two boys went out with a basket and picked up wood and coal in the as it did very quickly when other boys saw that a Sunday''s work meant road, I say to-day that I rejoice with every boy who is going through keenest hardship that a boy can know or pass through for any single believe in poverty as a condition to experience, to go through, and then the way of the deepest and fullest experience that can come to a boy.


id: 15154
title: Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
author: Münsterberg, Hugo
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  of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be psychology adjusted experiments to the particular needs of the psychological laboratory: the purposes of the economic life, the qualities are especially fit for a particular kind of economic work. of the work toward economic psychology in the Harvard laboratory. certain influence, but in the second case, our real experiment on long while a much-studied problem of our psychological laboratories. In studying the results so far as the memory experiments were study of various industrial processes from a psychological point of to be based on group psychology as far as the economic problems are experiments in the service of industrial psychology are still so conditions of work completely adjusted to the demands of psychology, the method of the economic psychological experiment may also quickly the methods of experimental economic psychology by a few psychological laboratories, the number of the subjects experimented on


id: 16256
author: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
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  1. Management is a life study of every man who works with other the worker to work under Scientific Management. Traditional Management especially on day work the output of the men ever, was an individual task set for a worker on day work, or piece of the work of an individual, a standard man, and the task is always SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT NEEDS SUPPORT IN STUDYING WORKERS.--The work of the individual under Scientific Management comes the RELATION OF INDIVIDUAL RECORDS TO SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT IN that Scientific Management kills individuality and turns the worker WORK OF THE WORKERS.--The men are simply given standard tasks to UNDER SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT BETTER METHODS AND BETTER WORK Scientific Management, by determining and standardizing methods standards of Scientific Management, as presented to the worker in constantly, as Scientific Management standardizes work and shows Under the teaching of Scientific Management, work, the quantity

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  The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste


id: 28723
title: Susan and Edward; Or, A Visit to Fulton Market
author: Anonymous
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  In New-York, there are a number of Market Houses. Fulton Market is at the East end of Fulton-street, near the East River, and the Washington Market is on Maiden-lane, on the East River side, and was called Fly Market. Catherine Market, in Catherine-street, East River. SUSAN AND EDWARD were two engaging little children. in Pearl-street, in the great city of New-York, where the houses stand with their mother to Fulton Market. Fulton Market is a large building, filling up a whole square, and is Their mother having got of the butcher, her supply of meat, they next visited the fish stalls.--"O mother! mother!" said the lively little do want _one_ oyster," said little modest Susan. Mother, may I have a clam?" said the boy. was a great sight for these young visiters. Pearl-street, then up through Franklin Square, having their little and long will they remember the morning walk with their mother to Fulton


id: 29953
title: Commercialism and Journalism
author: Holt, Hamilton
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  In olden times the dailies carried only a very little advertising--a owner of one of the leading evening papers in New York told me that 90 that in the good time coming, advertising will be relegated to the the advertisers pay good money to put it before the people--it is not Thus you see advertising has made possible the great complex papers and advertising still further increased, rival papers competed for it and Advertising is also responsible for the fact that our papers are no press agents in the city of New York,--that is, men and women employed the New York papers the other day read that a prominent Socialist, who good sum of money, hired a press agent, and bought advertising space in many papers still publish the advertisement of Mrs. Laudanum''s soothing a New York evening paper which was so much interested in the publication like the daily paper.


