Banking and Business Ethics (Classic Reprint)

The experience of many bankers is that their constant campaigns of advertising make but slow progress in convincing the general public of the many advantages that banks offer as a means of facilitating business operations, of promoting thrift, and of rendering assistance in the making of good investments. There is still too little use made of banking conveniences, there is too little incentive to wise and prudent management of financial affairs, and there is far too great a tendency to make investments that promise to bring quick and fabulous returns, but that end only in loss and disaster. If mature people are so slow to learn obvious lessons, the logical conclusion is that betterment can be brought about only by education. This book is therefore an attempt to bring high-school boys and girls into closer touch with the business affairs of the life that lies, in most cases, just beyond the highschool age. Every young person is likely to measure his success largely by the amount of his salary. It is desirable, therefore, that the young person entering business should know something of the nature of money, the function it performs, the way it is handled in mercantile affairs, and the manner of its expansion by means of the credit system. A bove all, it is necessary for him to understand the meaning of that little word thrift in the conduct of his own life. The authors believe that much help in all these particulars is to be found herein; and they hope that it may be found not only by the young, but also by older persons, business men, farmers, and workers, who have not been able heretofore to find a book of precisely the scope of this. The book is quite in line with the recent expansion of the school curriculum.
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