Thursday, February 27, 2025

Business Manners of 1901

It never costs anything to be polite, yet it is often worth a fortune.


1. Be cheerful, and show proper civility to all with whom you transact business.

2. There are many who have failed in business because they never learned to respect the feelings or opinions of others.

3. Kindness of manners is the best capital to invest in a business, and will bear a higher rate of interest than any other investment.

4. Be accomplished, polite, refined, civil, affable, well-behaved and well-mannered, and you will never lose by it.

5. Manners make the business man, and give him the art of entertaining and pleasing all with whom he has business relations.

6. If you wish to change a man's views in reference to some business transaction or other negotiations, respect his opinions, and he will be respectful and listen to your arguments.

7. There are a thousand easy, engaging little ways, which we may put on in dealing with others, without running any risk of over-doing it. — From “The Busy Man’s Friend”, 1901


🍽️Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J. Graber, is the Site Editor for the Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia 

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