Excerpt from On the Road to Riches: Hints for Clerks and Young Business Men on Buying and Selling Goods; Selling Goods on the Road; Business Correspondence: Drumming; Duties of Clerks; Partners, Etc Those of us who have passed the mile-stones that mark the early roads of business, often fancy that a bit of our experience might be of some value to the young who are just starting out on that thoroughfare. And while we do not believe that we can lay down a chart which will invariably lead to success, we do think that our own mistakes, and the mistakes we have seen oth ers make, ought to be of benefit to those who are tread ing in our steps. 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.