Show alks on banking 1 YOUR BUSINESS CHARACTER f Is a all business operations I 1 involve certain requisites are cs es UK og credit sentill if the risk is to prove satis factory to the one who extends the credit these requisites are best pressed in what has well been beep 0 termed o the three big Os Cs of credit dinely chara character acter capacity and capital this talk will cover the arst la is arder to possess a business stricter a man need irot trot have known k no n as business abat hat 13 3 ordin aily besty lones tj for business honesty is not Is big a thing as business integrity need a man say long iong prayers md and piss pass the plate however aamir bia M these traits kiy be he ile must thin win semblance of re h o 0 re inore a ajon be he mu A carry the religion of f the ten commandments the ser mon monon on the mount and golden rule s life he fie must do no tricky thing he must be on the eel he ile mut give the square deal his word mutt be better than his bond he lie must mark goods fairly advertise honestly rectify any error correct any misunderstanding and never forget that his best advertisement is a satisfied customer and customers are mode made oab by but business iness integrity the underlying reason why some men man have become gicht merchants is to be found in the spirit of the house there are great stores in every large city whose whoso Cre greatness atness is duo due to the single fact that th they ey have back of them business character their gabd will worth millions is a good will of integrity it has taken years to build it up the buying public soon finds out the spirit of the house you can catch a sucker but once it pay to try the second time you do well to inquire how this element of integrity enters into fotr business atif ife for if the banker dues not believe in m aou couyou you can get ao loans from him yon can lose this priceless asset bv by a single bingle lapse apse from abts 6 iness iness v virtue and once it is lost loa it is 13 hard sledding al to regain it A certain bank made a large sized loan to a burrdet bior a specific operation with the understanding that the funds were to be ased to purchase material and pay libor labor for that one job it soon developed that in in spite of the fact that the contractor claimed to be progressing well with work nothing hid been done he had used the mone elsewhere it was a breach tf of trust the banker had checked him up as bankers generally do he has lost bis his character in that bank aid and his word no longer goes another concern was buying automobiles with the banks money giving the hank bank a trust receipt whereby cars could nut be delivered w without thoat obtaining a release atom the bank and paying on t the he loan the banker became suspicious that something was wrong and checked up ap the cars presumed to be in stock on the trust trus agreement agreements and found that four had been sold without accounting to the bank result a hasty calling of the entire loan loss of confidence toss loss ofa of a helpful ba badness iness arrangement M ent friendship you cannot play fast fatt and loose in business and win out you cannot deceive jour banker for long 1059 he lie hasa has a knack of finding things out gets to him hot he has a sense gense that smells danger he lie is a detective th belld a your business structure with character as the first Is t of alra three supporting support piers B as acan active e in the church as a you I 1 ike like bg b as good as you pretend to be bc but re member always that ro in business it is nat what you seem to be but what youage you are that counts and your true natu e w 11 II soon become manifest to those ho are in position to find things 0 out ut a and n d can help you if thea the trust you but cannot if it they dont |