 The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice...  The Monthly critical gazette - Page 3911824Full view - About this book
 | Apprentices - 1865 - 138 pages
...doubtless, that caused him, years afterwards, to give the following advice to a " young tradesman:"— " The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work,... | |
 | Blade - Youth - 1865 - 268 pages
...one only in the hundred, for a long life, succeeds. Industry is the basis of reputation and credit. " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night," said Franklin, "heard by a creditor, will make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Young men - 1865 - 252 pages
...one only in the hundred, for a long life, succeeds. Industry is the basis of reputation and credit. " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night," said Franklin, " heard by a creditor, will make him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at... | |
 | Readings - Business - 1866 - 196 pages
...business, in all avocations, character, in the long run, is the best capital. Says Poor Richard — " The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or...nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy for six months longer ; but if he sees you at a gambling-table, or hears your voice in a tavern when... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. . . . The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern when you should be at work,... | |
 | Edwin C. Sims - Business & Economics - 1989 - 436 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse forever. The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at flve in the moming or nine at night heard by a creditor makes him easy six months longer, but if he... | |
 | Roger G. Betsworth - Philosophy - 1990 - 220 pages
...has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. Remember that credit is money. . . . The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer, but if he sees you at a billiard... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - Religion - 1993 - 241 pages
...(or because of) the fact that Franklin frequently manipulated appearances. As he counseled one youth, "The Sound of your Hammer at Five in the Morning or...heard by a Creditor, makes him easy Six Months longer. But," Franklin warned, "if he sees you at a Billiard Table . . . when you should be at Work, he sends... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. 'The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer,- but if he sees you at a billiard-table,... | |
 | Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 pages
...money an hour beyond the time you promised, lest a disappointment shut up your friend's purse for ever. "The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit...The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiardtable,... | |
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