The Shasta courier., 1870-05-07
Rules for Business Men.

lake advantage of modern facilities,
and accomplish as much in single day as
required weeks, months, or years formerly.
Use the means within your reach there
is something for everybody to 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 stean power if possible
Make it known by printers ink that you
are prepared to do business.
Confess ignorance in regard to subjects
on which you are uninformed; listen and
learn.
Be silent when a fool talks; he will
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 in
formation.
To complete successfully with neigh
Dor, participate in the facilities afforded to
go ahead.
The door to wealth, ,espectability, nfu-
ence and nor, is thrown wide open to ALL
Establish yourself on the board and
sound basis of integrity; conduct your
business with intelligence and judgement.
Tritie not with serious matters, and be
not serious about trifes
Wisdom and virtue make the poor rich
and the rich honorable.
There is no deep or hidden mystery to
be studied or practiced to carry on busi-
ness successfully; on the contrary, all that
any honest, legitimate concern, demanded
by the public wants, requires, is fair judg-
ment, close industry, 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 useful
Find recreation in looking after your
business, and your business will not be
neglected in looking after recreation
Buy fair, sell fair, and take care of the
profits, and be economical
Should misfortune overtake you, re
trench, work harder, but never fly the
perseverance should you then fail you
will be honored but shrink, and you will
be despised.
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 tricky deceitful, and dishonest, are
rarely prosperous, for when confidence is
withdrawn. poverty is likely to follow
With the preservation of an upright
character, if the opportunities of acquiring
knowledge and cultivating the mind, which
lie in every ones way, be properly improv-
ed, res ectability, influence, and perhaps
wealth, may be the reward.
Resolve to perform what you ought, and
perform without fail what you resolve.
Reflect on what you see and hear Set
your mind at work reason with candor
weigh well and consider for yourself; decide
AMI act
Be civil aud obliging to all it costs no.
thing and is worth much
Be kind, liberal and just to all connect.
ed with you in 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 concern.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave
others to talk as they will
Never regret what is irretrievably lost.
Never believe that which seems improb-
able
Never expose your disappointment to
the world.
Never speak boastingly Of your business;
keep your own counsel about the manage
ment Of your affairs.
Be charitable according TO your means.
Never complain of being i'll used
Always speak well of your friends; but
OF your enemies speak neither good nor
evil.
Treat your Gust omers as your friends, by
serving them in the best manner, and let
them never be deceived or disappointed.
Sell at small profits. for cash and make
1t known through the newspapers