Dollars and Sense

William Crosbie Hunter

Dollars and Sense, by Col. Wm. C. Hunter

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Title: Dollars and Sense
Author: Col. Wm. C. Hunter
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Language: English
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[Illustration: The Author]
Dollars and Sense
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Being Memoranda made in the School of Practical Experience
HEREIN ARE
Golden Helps for Employer and Employee
Cheer, Courage, Help for the Weak, Weary, Discouraged Ones who Live in Shadowland
Cures for Worry and Fear Backbone Instead of Wishbone
AND
Guides and Experience which will Bring Success in Business, Happiness in Your Home, Respect of Your Neighbors, Love of Friends, and altogether Many Helps which will show you how to make this life well worth the living
By Col. Wm. C. Hunter

Price Paper Cover, 25 cents a Copy Cloth Bound, 50 cents a Copy Pro rata for any quantity
Published by Hunter &. Company Oak Park, Illinois. U.S.A.
Each Chapter Separately Copyrighted in 1906
Copyrighted in Book Form, 1907
Revised and Enlarged Edition, Copyright, 1908 by Wm. C. Hunter
All Rights Reserved

Contents
Aches and Pains 100 Advertising 32 Advice 39 Ambition 18 Anger 94 Argument 42 Associates 61 Backbone and Wishbone 108 Brains, Birth, Boodle 105 Bribes 120 Buying 34 Catching Up 93 Cigarets 64 Compensation 25 Competition 30 Credit 11 Debt 103 Discontent 98 Do Good 108 Double Equipment 109 Dressing 100 Elimination 46 Employees 89 Enthusiasm 92 Expenses 35 Financing 96 Fixed Charges 63 Friends 88 Frozen Dog Tales 129 Generalists 99 Get Away 109 Good Fellowship 67 Good for Evil 65 Gossip 120 Groundwork 7 Grumbling 60 Hard Times 59 Hard Work 68 Health 56 Home Life 77 Honesty 73 Horse Sense 50 Hypochondriacs 122 Independence 85 Initiative 110 Kindness 69 Lawyers 19 Laxity 92 Learn to Play 66 Learn to Say No 9 Managers 51 Memory 79 Monthly Dividends 102 My Symphony 126 Never Quit Work 13 Night Work 111 Obedience 113 Optimism 78 Our Sons 117 Patience 57 Pay Day 114 Perspiration 87 Politics 123 Precedent 95 Producers 21 Profanity 123 Promises 84 Pull 119 Reading 40 Rule of Gold 125 Salesmen 71 Saving 115 Selling 52 Short Letters 87 Sizing Up Things 27 Sleep 60 Specialists 47 Speculation 43 Stand When Selling 15 Stenographers 121 Success 74 System 124 The Boss 26 The Man, Not the Plan 23 The String 49 Thinking 75 Vacations 55 Vantage Ground 16 Waiting for Success 116 Worry 81

Dedication
The Author respectfully dedicates this book
to the Officers and Proprietors
to the Managers and Superintendents
to the Buyers and Sellers
to the Clerks and Office Men
to the Youth seeking promotion
to the Boy with his first job
and to all who wish to get Happiness Health and Dollars.

Dollars and Sense

Groundwork
When you cut a melon, your friends will come with eager mouths and sit under your shade tree and help you eat it. Few of these friends would respond to your call for help when you were working in the hot sun raising that melon.
Many people accept the dividends and benefits of friendship but give you a cold shoulder when called upon for assessments of friendship.
The world is full of young men whose objective is snaps. They are looking all the time for what they can get and not what they can give.
To forge ahead, you must give value received. You can't draw out all the time.
The employe must do what he is paid to do and "then some," for it is this "then some" or plus that gets your salary raised.
The employer and employe must realize that each must make profit. It is because there are so many ingrates and so many four flushers that so few succeed.
This book will be welcomed by those who are square, ambitious and patient. It is not theory. It is not preaching. These chapters will be old friends to you, and you may read a few minutes or a few hours. You may read and re-read as often as you wish, for you will always find some new truth impressed on you every time you read.
Keep this book, carry it with you, and you will be benefitted.
Worry and fear will fade and peace and courage will grow within you the more you study these pages.
The writer has "been at it" for 32 years. He has had successes, failures, joys, sorrows, and experienced the passions, the problems, the difficulties you have experienced.
Since the age of ten years he has been upon his own resources and the 32 years since then have been years of
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