Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 9 - Page 3
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Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE
V O L . LI. N o . 9. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, August 27,1910
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VERYONE engaged in the solution of the complex problems which surround the average
business man of to-day should be in a state of preparedness—a condition gained by careful
analysis and contemplative study. And yet the average business man will say that he has
no time for study—that he is too closely immersed in his business to bother with anything
outside.
Undoubtedly true; but what is his "business"?
Should not everything that affects his commercial welfare—present and future—be his "busi-
ness''?
This includes a wide range of thought.
There is, for instance, the ability of the people to buy pianos, musical merchandise, talking
machines, and capital which may be increased or lessened by numerous circumstances, such as the
crops, the employment of labor, the advance or decline in prices, the public's purchases in other di-
rections, as of late, for example, in the way of automobiles.
There are, too, the conditions which make the obtaining of additional capital easy or difficult.
There is the world's production and consumption of raw material.
There are mighty developments constantly going on in every trade that sooner or later may
directly and emphatically affect all connected therewith, and there are local questions and projects,
such as, for instance, the construction of new transportation facilities, whose carrying out may.exert
a most vital influence on the merchant's business.
The trouble is.we do not pay sufficient attention to these problems.
We keep too close tosthose.which immediately affect us,\ and we do not keep pace with the
wider movements which either are broadening or are narrowing our horizon.
But a reasonable endeavor to keep in touch with these broader developments, together with
some study of the works of the world's greatest men, will prove a-valuable.aid in the performance of
those tasks which we are ••daily confronting.
This study will better prepare one for the solution of still more difficult problems should they
arise.
A business man should study everything which has an indirect as well as direct effect on his
business.
The day of superficiality—of haphazard methods—is gone by, and it is the successful thinker—
the man who studies and means to profit'by that study—who will win the trade battles of the future.
—A^.V
Music Trade Review -- © mbsi.org, arcade-museum.com -- digitized with support from namm.org
THE
V O L . LI. N o . 9. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, August 27,1910
SING
CENTS.
$ 2 E O? 0 P P E! S Y!°AR E
5«^ $
i
Z$
E
VERYONE engaged in the solution of the complex problems which surround the average
business man of to-day should be in a state of preparedness—a condition gained by careful
analysis and contemplative study. And yet the average business man will say that he has
no time for study—that he is too closely immersed in his business to bother with anything
outside.
Undoubtedly true; but what is his "business"?
Should not everything that affects his commercial welfare—present and future—be his "busi-
ness''?
This includes a wide range of thought.
There is, for instance, the ability of the people to buy pianos, musical merchandise, talking
machines, and capital which may be increased or lessened by numerous circumstances, such as the
crops, the employment of labor, the advance or decline in prices, the public's purchases in other di-
rections, as of late, for example, in the way of automobiles.
There are, too, the conditions which make the obtaining of additional capital easy or difficult.
There is the world's production and consumption of raw material.
There are mighty developments constantly going on in every trade that sooner or later may
directly and emphatically affect all connected therewith, and there are local questions and projects,
such as, for instance, the construction of new transportation facilities, whose carrying out may.exert
a most vital influence on the merchant's business.
The trouble is.we do not pay sufficient attention to these problems.
We keep too close tosthose.which immediately affect us,\ and we do not keep pace with the
wider movements which either are broadening or are narrowing our horizon.
But a reasonable endeavor to keep in touch with these broader developments, together with
some study of the works of the world's greatest men, will prove a-valuable.aid in the performance of
those tasks which we are ••daily confronting.
This study will better prepare one for the solution of still more difficult problems should they
arise.
A business man should study everything which has an indirect as well as direct effect on his
business.
The day of superficiality—of haphazard methods—is gone by, and it is the successful thinker—
the man who studies and means to profit'by that study—who will win the trade battles of the future.
—A^.V
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