Salesmanship

Excerpt from Salesmanship If one average man, fifty years old, could and would tell the truth about himself, we should have a priceless textbook on life. The other day I sat beside a man in the library car of a twenty-hour New York to Chicago railway train. Faintly, like the outline of year-old furrows in a fallow field, there lay upon his face the traces of a fast-lived youth. Discretion had checked and right living in part repaid youth's borrowings from old age. He had funded and underwritten the debt of his youth. He held the shares himself and was paying to himself a yearly dividend upon a capitalized deficit of wasted brain and body. 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.