THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.
It seldom pays in the long run to go out of your way to do something you do not "want to do in the expectation of getting something for nothing. Many a buyer of merchandise will take a larger quantity of an article than he can profitably handle, because of the allurement of a larger discount. After he has sold three-fourths of the goodo the profit otill remains in the unsold fourth, and yet he must oftentimes geli the remaining fourth at a great reduction in price in order to dispose of it at all. It would have been a far wiser plan to buy the quantity that would probably sell out clean in the regular way, paj ingthe price the quantity might warrant. The profit could have been larger in the end. The old inherent trait in human nature that tries to get something for nothing has deceived millions of people all their lives. Some day men will learn that it is a will-o'-the-wisp.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 20 April 1908, Page 3
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168THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 20 April 1908, Page 3
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