From the Author's Preface. It needs no long experience, I think, to convince anyone that men engaged in active business need all the information they can get to manage their concerns with success; nor does it require a world-wide observation to discover that not a few purchase their knowledge at the price of their fortune and reputation. Impressed with this conviction, I determined, some four months ago, to take advantage of the leisure accidentally afforded me to see what land-marks had been set up, and to know what could ...
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From the Author's Preface. It needs no long experience, I think, to convince anyone that men engaged in active business need all the information they can get to manage their concerns with success; nor does it require a world-wide observation to discover that not a few purchase their knowledge at the price of their fortune and reputation. Impressed with this conviction, I determined, some four months ago, to take advantage of the leisure accidentally afforded me to see what land-marks had been set up, and to know what could be learned respecting a matter so important as business, by means less costly and more pleasant than the severe teachings of experience. On looking through the records within my reach, I found a good deal that I considered valuable, and which I was satisfied that all who are engaged in business do not know, though doubtless many know the whole of it and much more. It seemed to me that, by separating that which was useful and practical from the mass of irrelevant matter with which it was mixed up, and arranging it in an interesting and instructive shape, with the addition of some facts entirely within my own possession, I could do some service to those for whom I entertain a higher respect than for any other class of men in the world -- I mean the active, intelligent business men of the country -- and especially to those who are fitting themselves for business pursuits. Whether the attempt is a happy one, I cannot say. It is a hazardous undertaking for an unpracticed hand to attempt authorship at any time; and on subjects like this, it is doubly hazardous. My claims to the indulgent consideration of those whose attention I necessarily solicit by the act of publication, rest mainly on the fact that the number of books on the principles of money-making is few -- none to serve as models -- and that more are wanted; and upon the fact that I honestly entertain the opinion, however mistaken it may be, that those who favour this humble treatise with a candid and unprejudiced perusal will not find that their time and money have been totally thrown away. The value of books of this kind does not consist solely in what they state, but also in what they may suggest, so that a wide-awake man stands a chance of having an idea suddenly darted into his mind by which he may materially and essentially improve his fortune, or increase his happiness....
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