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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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HALL AND STAIRCASE.See Note 25. GENERAL REQUISITES FOR MERCANTILE SUCCESS. 363 there was a lurking idea that little more was needed for a traderthan to be tolerably well-looking and well-mannered, and to havea fair share of gumption. Through these and many other causes business has beenoverdone everywhere, and most of all in the great cities. Onlya small proportion of the clerks of whom one catches aglimpse through the shop-windows can, in any case and at anyperiod, go into business for themselves ; and these chances aregrowing notably fewer and fewer in comparison with the increaseof population. The constant tendency is towards the concentra-tion of trade in fewer and fewer hands. Only a certain amountof goods of any kind can be sold in any locality; and one greatestablishment which absorbs the business once done by ten,does it by superior ability or greater capital; for this, whetherwe regret it or not, there is no remedy. Customers will gowhere they are most likely to find what the

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