Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-cphqk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-23T21:04:25.977Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

To Enter Business or Not to Enter?: A Letter of 1807 Considers the Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

What does it take to be successful in business? In the letter printed below, a doctor advised a brother who contemplated entering trade in a certain small Massachusetts town in the year 1807. In spite of its quaint tone, the letter raises interesting questions. Is the doctor's analysis of the situation essentially sound? What do you think of the qualifications he lists for success in trade in this instance? Does this simple consideration of the question have meaning for other times and business situations?

Type
Other
Information
Business History Review , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , December 1941 , pp. 93 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1941

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The original is in the manuscript collection of Baker Library, Harvard University.