The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-01-28
Rules gar Rn.incss Wen

I Take advantage of modern facilities
and accomplish as much in single
day - required weeks, months, ol
years formerly.
Use the means within your reach
there j. something for everybody &.
do; and a place for every one who Is
willing to work
Don't depend upon your own lungs
alone; use the lungs OF the Press
Don't depend alone upon your own
hands, or the labor Of other mems
hands; use steam-power if possible.
Make 1t known by printers ink that
you are prepared tu do business.
Confess Ignorance in regard To sub
jects on which you are uninformeI;
listen and learn.
BE silent when a fool talks; he viii
cease the sooner; you cannot gain by
his converse.
BE ashamed Of nothing but your own
errors.
Calculate the probabilities of the
future; increase and multiply the
means of information.
To compete successfully with a
neighbbr, participate in the facilities
afforded to "a ahead.
The door to wealth, reSpectability,
influence and honor, Is thrown wide
open To all.
Establish yourself on the broad
and sound basis of iRtcgriiy conduct
your business with intelligence and
Judgment.
Trifle not with serious matters, and
be not serious about trifies.
Wisdom and virtue make the poor
rich and the rich honorable.
There is no deep hidden mystery to
be studied or pTacticed To carry on bus
mess successfully; on the contrary, all
that any honest, legitimate concern,
demanded by the public wants, re-
quircs, Is fair jud Smcnt, close indus
try, unwaVering integrity, superior
workmanship, fair prices, and to do
better by the customers, if possible,
than Others in the same business can
do by theirs-and give it publicity.
Let the business of others alone, and
attend to your own.
Don't buy what you don't want; use
every hour to the best advantage, and
study even to make leisure hours use
full.
Find recreation in looking after your
business, and your business will not
be neglected in looking after recrea-
ton.
Buy fair, sell fair, take care of the
profits, and be economical.
Should misfortune Overtake you, re-
trench, work harder, but never fly the
track; confront difficulties with un-
fiinching perseverance; should you
then fail, you will be hOnOred; but
shrink, and you will be dcspised
Consider the causes of the good
standing of some, and the decline and
fall and want of success of others, and
regulate your conduct accordingly.
The trickery, deceitful, and dishOn-
est are rarely prosperous, for when
confidence is withdrawn, poverty is
likely to follow.
With the preservation of an upright
character, if the opportunities for ac-
quiring knowledge and cultivating
the mind, which lie in every ones
way, be properly improved, respecta-
bility, influence, and perhaps wealth,
may be the reward.
Resolve TO perform what you ought;
and perform without fail what you re-
solve.
Reflect on what you see and hear
Set your mind at work; reason with
candor; weigh we'll and consider for
yourself, decide and act.
Be civil and Obliging to all; it costs
nothing, ana is worth much.
BE kind, liberal and just to all con-
nected with you business.
BE not diverted from your duty by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make upon you; their censures are
not in your power, and consequently
should not be any part of your con-
Germ.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and
leave Others to talk as they will.
Never regret what is irretrievably
lost.
Never believe that which seems inn
probable.
Never expose your disappointment
to the world.
Never speak bOastingly of your bus
iness; keep your own counsel about
the management of your affairs.
Be charitable according to your
means.
Never complain of being i'll used:
Always speak well of your friends,
by serving them in the best manner,
and never let them be deceived or dis
Sell at small profits, for cash, and
make it known through the newspa-
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