Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-08-31
nIcnnnCSS in business.

There is no greater mistake that a busi-
ness man can make, than TO be mean in his
business, always taking the half cent, and
never returning a cent for the dollars he has
made and is making. Such a policy is very
much like the farmer who sows three pccks
of seed when he ought to have sown five,
and as Il rccompcnsc for the leanncss of his
soul only gets ten when he ought TO have
got fifteen bushels Of grain.
Everybody has heard Of the provcrb of
''penny wise and pound foolish" a liberal
expenditure in the way of business is always
sure to be capital investment. There are
people in the world who are short-sightcd
enough to believe that their interests can be
best promoted by grasping and clinging TO
all they can get, and never letting cent slip
through their fingers.
As a general thing it will be found-other
things being cqual-that he who is most lib
eral is most successful in business. OF course
we do not mean to be inferred that man
should be prodigal i'll his expenditures, but
that he should show his customers, if he is
trader, or to those he may be doing any
kind of business with, that, in all his trans
actions, as well as social relations, he ac-
knowledges the everlasting fact, that there
can be no permanent prosperity or good
feeling in Il community where benefits arc
not reciprocal
We know Of instances where traders have
enjoyed the profits of hundreds of dollars
worth of trade and yet have exhibited not
the slightest disposition to rcciprocatc oven
to the smallest amount. Now what must
necessarily follow from such course? Why
simply the loss of large profits per annum
in the loss of trade which, under more lib
cral system, might have been retained.
The practice of some men seems to be, to
make as little show III the way Of business
as possible. Such a one, if the trader, takes
no pains with the appearance of his store.
Everything around him is in wOrn-out, di-
lapidatcd, dirty condition. To have it 9TH
crwisc it would cost dollar for whitcwash
and perhaps five dollars for painting, and a
few dollars besides for cleaning up and put
ting things in order. And so he plods on
and loses hundreds of dollars worth Of GUS
tom for want of attention 70 these matters.
while his more sagacious neighbor, keeping
up with the times, and having an eye to APP
pcarancos, does Il prosperous business.
Another will spend no money in any way
to make business, for fear he shotrd not get
ii back again. Consequently he sends out
no circulars, distributes no hand-bills, pub
fishes no advertisements; but sits down
croaiing about hard timcs--moaning over
the future prospects of notcsto pay, no mon
ey and no trade; and comes out just where
he might expect to comc-short, while his
neighbor, following dillcrclt track, doing
all that is necessary to be done to make bus
mess; has business, isn't short, but has mon
cy TO loan; and it would be Just like him tc
get twelve per cent, perhaps more, for the
use of it; and we should no. blame him fol
so doing.
The fact is, times have changed, The
manner of doing business is different now
from what il used to be. 1t would be just as
foolish to insist upon doing business in tho
old-iashioncd way, as it would be to insist
upon travelling with an OK team instead o
by railroad; to ret the news by old-lashion
ed stages instead of having it brought by
the lightning telegraph. The times demanC
men Of enlarged, liberal, energetic souls
men who will keep with the world rs it goes
men Of hearts too, who not only desire tC
90 ahead themselves, but take pleasure il
seeing others succeed; and who have public
spirit enough to do something for, and re
ioce in the prosperity of the people,
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