Excerpt from Keeping Up With Rising Costs No magic figure for all lines is to be expected. But just as all men are very close to the average man, so out of the investigation of many men's efforts to do business at low cost and with high profit merge reasonable standards for single expense items and fair averages for the total cost of doing business in one and another line, above or below which the average dealer in that line is unwise to go.' ost standards enable the merchant to match his dia advantages with his advantages so accurately that he can easily pick the top-heavy items. 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.