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Brief counsels concerning business

The writer of these lines is deeply impressed with a sense of the gravity of his position, as the giver of counsel on so important a matter as business life, and the high responsibilities this position carries with it. And this all the more, since his counsel will tend, he trusts, not only to make business life successful in ministering to personal progress in the world but also enable those who study it to press forward to that higher and better life which alone is worth living and working for here. 

This higher life makes a man grow purer, the longer he is in contact with the contaminating influences of some forms of business and makes him younger, the older and weaker he becomes. 

This life, while it ministers to success in business, makes it also a ministration of good to others, inducing them to walk by the rule of that wisdom ' whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace.' 

These counsels, the author hopes, are likely to be sound because they are based on the practical experience of long and active business life. They are also readily attainable by those who, if they are not blessed with great natural gifts, has at all events a wish to walk warily through Hfe in that path which is pleasing to ' Him with whom we have to do,' and from whom comes alike the success which generally attends that course, and the determined yet humble will to follow it.

Some contents:

INTRODUCTORY 9

I. AN OBJECT IN LIFE . . . . . I3

II. MEMORY 16

III. ORDER AND SYSTEM IN DOING WORK. 24

IV. THE KEEPING OF ENGAGEMENTS. 7.^
V. ECONOMY .30

VI. NEST-EGGS 35

VII. CHANCES OF SUCCESS IN BUSINESS . . 40

VIII. A CERTAIN VIEW OF MONEY-MAKING. 43

IX. DAWDLERS AND DAWDLING ... 45
X. THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG VIEW OF

THE DUTY AND DIGNITY OF WORK . . 49

XI. THE TIME TO WORK 51

XII. THE VALUE OF DOING ONE THING AT A TIME 53

XIII. THE ANSWER *N0' IN THE DOING OF

WORK .55

XIV. WAITING OR STAYING POWER ... 58
XV. CHANGE OF WORK WHEN WEARIED OR

WORRIED 61

XVI. WORRY IN WORK 64

XVII. SELF-HELP IN BUSINESS .... 67
XVIII. NEIGHBOUR-HELP IN BUSINESS . . . 70

XIX. TACT 76

XX. ADAPTABILITY . . ... -79

XXI. ABSTRACTION 8 1

XXII. THE KEEPING OF COUNSEL ... 83

XXIII. BALANCING . . . . . .87

XXIV. DETERIORATION 90

XXV. CROOKEDNESS 94

XXVI. CURIOSITY 96

XXVII. COURAGE . . . . . . .98

XXVIII. TEMPER 104

XXIX. ANTICIPATION IN BUSINESS LIFE . . I08

XXX. DEALING WITH DIFFICULTIES . . -US

XXXI. DEALING WITH DISAGREEABLE. .117

XXXII. DETRACTION AND DISLIKE . . . I20

XXXIII. ONE'S OWN COMPANY 1 24

XXXIV. COMPANIONSHIP AND COMPANIONS . . I28

XXXV. OLD MEN AS FRIENDS OF THE YOUNG IN

BUSINESS 132

XXXVI. INFERIORS I36

XXXVII. KINDNESS AND THE OTHER THING . . I4I

XXXVIII. SECRETS I43

XXXIX. PROMISES 146

XL. RASH JUDGMENT AND THE TAKING OF OFFENCE 149

XLI. CONSIDERATION AND GIVING WAY . . 156

XLII. SUSPICION 161

XLIII. COURTESY 167

XLIV. GRIEVANCES 169

XLV. PARTNERS 172

XLVI. MONEY-LENDING 175

XLVII. BORROWING 182

XLVIII. FAULT-FINDING 186

the book details :

Author: pseud  Old man of business

Publication date: [1891]

Company: [London] Religious Tract Society

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