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Nearly always it has had its beginning in humble surroundings, with a little boy born in a log cabin in the woods, in a wretched shanty at the edge of a field, in a crowded tenement section or in the slums of a foreign city, who studied and worked by daylight and firelight while he made his living blacking boots or selling papers until he found the trail by which he could climb to what we are pleased to call success. Measured by the standards of Greece and Rome or the Middle Ages, when practically the only form of achievement worth mentioning was fighting to. | Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney 1 CHAPTER PAGE Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney Project Gutenberg s The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Book of Business Etiquette Author Nella Henney Release Date October 13 2007 EBook 23025 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF BUSINESS ETIQUETTE Produced by Audrey Longhurst Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images from the Home Economics Archive Research Tradition and History Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney 2 The Book of BUSINESS ETIQUETTE The Book of Business Etiquette Garden City New York Doubleday Page Company 1922 COPYRIGHT 1922 BY DOUBLEDAY PAGE COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDEN CITY N. Y. First Edition RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED AS BEFITS AN AUTHOR TO THREE BUSINESS MEN ACKNOWLEDGMENT It would be a pleasure to call over by name and thank individually the business men and the business organizations that so graciously furnished the material upon which this little book is based. But the author feels that some of them will not agree with all the statements made and the inferences drawn and for this reason is unable to do better than give this meager return for a service which was by no means meager. CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER PAGE 3 CHAPTER PAGE I. THE AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN 1 II. THE VALUE OF COURTESY 17 III. PUTTING COURTESY INTO BUSINESS 40 IV. PERSONALITY 70 V. TABLE MANNERS 94 VI. TELEPHONES AND FRONT DOORS 108 VII. TRAVELING .