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Title: The business career in its public relations

Author: Albert Shaw

Release Date: August 9, 2009 [EBook #29641]

Language: English

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THE BUSINESS CAREER

Barbara Weinstock
Lectures on the Morals
of Trade.

This series will contain essays by
representative scholars and men of
affairs dealing with the various phases
of the moral law in its bearing on
business life under the new economic
order, first delivered at the University
of California on the Weinstock foundation.
The first volume to appear in
this series is:

THE BUSINESS CAREER. By
Albert Shaw, Ph.D.

Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco

THE
BUSINESS CAREER
IN ITS PUBLIC RELATIONS

BY

ALBERT SHAW, PH.D.

EDITOR OF THE
AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS

It is the positive and aggressive
attitude toward life, the ethics of
action, rather than the ethics of
negation, that must control the
modern business world, and that
may make our modern business
man the most potent factor for good
in this, his own, industrial period.

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, SAN FRANCISCO

Copyright, 1904
by PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
San Francisco

The Tomoye Press

The cultivation of public spirit, in the broad sense, and the
determination to be an all-round good and efficient citizen and member
of the community, will often help a man amazingly to discern the
opportunities for usefulness that lie in the direct line of his
business life.

THE FOUNDER'S PREFACE

Despite all that can still be said against trade practices, against the
business lies that are told, the false weights and measures that are
used, the trade frauds to which the public is subjected, we are nearer
a high commercial standard than ever before in the world's history.

Man's confidence in man is gre