. Little journeys to the homes of the great . ughed, and vouchsafed thefact that he traced a lineage to Oliver Cromwell. Alittle pause followed, and the other guest spat, muzzledhis modesty and said he traced to William the Con-queror. Disraeli, with great deliberation, made a hiero-glyphic on the tablecloth with his fork and said, AndI trace a pedigree to Moses, who walked and talkedwith God on Mount Sinai, fifteen centuries before thebirth of Christ/ John Wanamaker leaped the gulf of twenty years andtraced direct to A. T. Stewart, as well he might, for itwas Stewards achievement that had fir
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . ughed, and vouchsafed thefact that he traced a lineage to Oliver Cromwell. Alittle pause followed, and the other guest spat, muzzledhis modesty and said he traced to William the Con-queror. Disraeli, with great deliberation, made a hiero-glyphic on the tablecloth with his fork and said, AndI trace a pedigree to Moses, who walked and talkedwith God on Mount Sinai, fifteen centuries before thebirth of Christ/ John Wanamaker leaped the gulf of twenty years andtraced direct to A. T. Stewart, as well he might, for itwas Stewards achievement that had first fired hisimagination to do and become. A. T. Stewart wasthe greatest merchant of his time. And John Wanamakerhas been not only a great merchant, but a teacher ofmerchants. And the John Wanamaker Stores now forma High School of economic Wanamaker is still teaching, tapping new reser-voirs of power as the swift-changing seasons a preacher and a teacher he has surely surpassedthe versatile A. T. STEWART. O succeed in business today it is not enoughthat you should look out for Number One:you must also look out for Number is, you must consider the needs of theDuyer and make his interests your own. To sell a personsomething he does not want, or to sell him somethingat a price above its actual value, is a calamity—forthe seller. Business is built on confidence. We makeour money out of our friends—our enemies will nottrade with us. In law the buyer and the seller are supposed to bepeople with equal opportunity to judge of an articleand pass on its value. Hence there is a legal maxim, Caveat emptor M— Let the buyer beware —andthis provides that when an article is once purchasedand passes into the possession of the buyer it is his,and he has no redress for short weight, count or inferiorquality. Behind that legal Latin maxim, Caveatemptor, the merchant stood for centuries, safelyentrenched. It was about Eighteen Hundred Sixty-fiv
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