,then, is essential to success. How is this to be gained. It is tobe gained by conversations with ri-vals, travelers, and wholesalers. Itdoesnt matter where it comes from,so long as it is information. Travel-lers are full of it, and a quiet chat inthe evening, as you and he smokeyour cigars in the… … jf him. not get any information out of him, put him down as anignoramus or a sharper, and avoid him. Get him to criticizeyour business. Good criticism is worth dollars; fulsome flatteryis subtle poison. Drop into the city and see the wholesalers from whom youbuy. They will take you out to lunch at…
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