Successful Business-Men: Short Accounts of the Rise of Famous Firms (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Alexander H. Japp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330064305 ISBN 13: 9781330064306

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Successful Business-Men: Short Accounts of the Rise of Famous Firms

The field is so wide - new firms every day pushing to the front, sometimes to the disadvantage of the old and long-standing, and in a manner which V1vidly illustrates the push and restless eagerness of the present century - that it has been found very difficult to select. Two ideas have, however, been, as we may say, guiding ones: First - to present various instances of success in different and contrasted industries; and, next, in no case to present alongside each other businesses which could in the most remote way be regarded as competing ones. If the wideness of the field has been felt to be Oppressive, in the sense of the limited View that in one such volume as the present can be taken of it, this compensatory reflection arises that if the public give the necessary encouragement, there is still an ample store to draw on for materials for further volumes.

With regard to the illustrations in the volume, it may be well to explain that the original intention was to present portraits of the founders of the firms, the rise and progress of which have been traced; but it was found impossible to carry out this idea completely, owing to the fact that portraits of some of them were not in existence.

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Excerpt from Successful Business-Men: Short Accounts of the Rise of Famous Firms The aim of this work is to present in a short succinct form the story of the rise of some of the more famous firms with the names of which the public is familiar. The writers have not limited themselves to dry facts and figures, but have been desirous to give as much life and movement and reality as they could to the sketches by anecdote, incident, or the record of characteristic habit or utterance on the part of the originators, or those who were instrumental in building up the businesses, or of putting their mark upon them in their earlier stages. In nearly all cases the writers have been in communication with one or other of the principals; and though they have exercised their own discretion about selection of facts and style of treatment, most of the sketches have been submitted to those concerned, and have received a general approval. It has been felt to be proper to say this at the outset, in order to emphasise the statement that it was no part of the Editor's intention to dwell upon the exact position of the businesses at the present moment, to publish any secrets either as to machinery or to methods, or to contrast rival businesses in any way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330064305
• ISBN 13: 9781330064306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274