Show wise mercantile maxims A thoroughly honest clerk can always command a better salary than one of equivocal habits babits he who has traded on out his neighbors good opinion is pretty are sure to die a poor man however high the price for which he sold it when business is attended with minuteness nut eness of detail strict bunc punctuality inanity Ina lity it auns funs runs evenly without jar or friction and insures success it is statistical truth that no single cause leads to more disasters than the use of liquors not necessarily through drunkenness but the enfeebling of the judgment in dress be neat and unobtrusive ave the perfection of dress is to be so perfectly in keeping with your occupation that the attention of an observer is not directed to it at all vainly shall a man hope to live and thrive by buying and selling after his bis neighbors and customers have learned by sad experience that his word is not reliable that his representations of the cost or quality of his wares are not to be trusted fuming and fretting in and around a store finding fault with clerks and em cm a lack of order and business tact and exposes the merchant to ridicule and unpleasant comments from those from whom he should have respect and confidence new york mail and express |