How to Do Business as Business is Done in Great Commercial CentersP. W. Ziegler & Company, 1896 - 316 páginas |
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How to Do Business as Business is Done in Great Commercial Centers Seymour Eaton Vista completa - 1912 |
How to Do Business as Business is Done in Great Commercial Centers Seymour Eaton Vista completa - 1897 |
How to Do Business as Business is Done in Great Commercial Centers Seymour Eaton Vista completa - 1912 |
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Página 224 - Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well ; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
Página 229 - The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society.
Página 293 - A CIRCLE is a plane figure, bounded by a curved, line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. The bounding line is called the circumference.
Página 294 - A Cylinder is a solid figure, described by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides, which remains fixed.
Página 298 - RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half -sum and the three remainders together; the square root of the product is the area.
Página 35 - A Promissory Note is a written promise to pay a specified sum of money on demand or at a given time.
Página 230 - Energy of character has always a power to evoke energy in others. It acts through sympathy, one of the most influential of human agencies. The zealous energetic man unconsciously carries others along with him. His example is contagious, and compels imitation. He exercises a sort of electric power, which sends a thrill through every fibre — flows into the nature of those about him, and makes them give out sparks of fire. Dr. Arnold's biographer, speaking of the power of this kind exercised by him...
Página 227 - ... the same end. Give a busy man ten minutes to write a letter, and he will dash it off at once ; give an idle man a day, and he will postpone it till to-morrow or next week. There is a momentum in the. active man which of itself almost carries him to the mark, just as a very light stroke will keep a hoop agoing, when a smart one was required to set it in motion.
Página 229 - Napoleon said the moral is to the physical as ten to one. The strength, the industry, and the civilization of nations — all depend upon individual character; and the very foundations of civil security rest upon it. Laws and institutions are but its outgrowth. In the just balance of nature, individuals, nations, and races, will obtain just so much as they deserve, and no more.
Página 47 - No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...