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Men of Vision “Traders, men of business, are sometimes spoken of as if they lacked vision. No accusation was ever less true. The very reverse is the real case. Most big business has been founded on hope and endeavour rather than on calculation and fact. This is especially true of great organisations trading overseas, of which the Englishspeaking peoples have produced more than any other races. The further l ack we go to the times when mighty trading corporations which have colonised continents, transplanted languages and opened up new routes of traffic were being formed, the more we find that they were based not on certainty and sure knowledge, but on the most romantic and often the most mistaken visions. This is how the first, and for centuries the largest, of the important trading companies of England was founded.’’—Mr R. Ft! Mottram. in Traders’ Dream.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20993, 21 December 1939, Page 6
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149TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20993, 21 December 1939, Page 6
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