Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: want; if you fill their orders correctly and on time, and give honest value, you will not need to make much of a glass-case show; and perhaps you will not need the corner block on the front street. Somehow people will find you out, wherever you are. About Competition " The real conquerors of the world are the thinkers."— Lord Avebury. The wise business man must look upon Competition as the penalty of Success. The index of merit is generally Success; and Competition against a successful Firm is a good advertisement for it, because the Competitor seldom fails to advertise the fact that he is in competition with you. As a rule, he has nothing new to offer ; his only claim on the attention of the public being that he can offer imitations of your goods at a cheaper rate. Competitors, like the poor, are ' always with us;' and no successful Firm, in a new line, can long expect to escape Competition. It is a singular fact, however, that Competition seldom affects soundly-managed, old-established businesses. On the contrary, it seems to provide the stimulus to renewed exertions, which would not, perhaps, have been made otherwise; and the result is, greater and greater success. Many a business has a much greater turnover to-day than when THE LUBRICANT it had no competitors. Thus the successful business man can afford to look upon Competition with a friendly eye. Healthy Competition is good for trade. It is the lubricant for the wheels of business. It keeps off the rust. It sharpens the wits, opens the eyes, and furnishes new ideas. It is the safety- valve for explosive customers, who like to feel they can go elsewhere when they are a little hurt because they have been pressed for payment of an overdue account; or think they are not being treated quite well when some little...