Some Principles of Business-Like Conduct in Libraries (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Principles of Business-Like Conduct in LibrariesWhat constitutes a business-like way of doing things, as opposed to an unbusiness-like way? Not system alone, for that may be carried to an extreme that is the reverse of business-like. Not honesty alone, for the scrupulously honest man may hope lessly lack business sense. Not promptness, not quickness of apprehension, but rather such a com bination of all these things, and of many others, that the best results will be obtained at the least expenditure of money, time and energy. 0 The busi ness man must not only produce or distribute good articles, but he must do so at a profit, otherwise his procedure is not business-like. A man who advertised that he sold all goods at less than cost was asked how he managed to get along on that basis. I couldn't, he replied, if I didn't have such a big business. The size of a business, or the quality of its goods, does not make its methods business-like, if it is not making money.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.