Other Form of Name
Sells, Elijah Watt, 1858-1924
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1921
Abstract
At least seventy-five per cent of all concerns started, fail. I have verified this statement by calling on an authority in such matters. It is as nearly correct as is possible. Men who start out in business seem to know so little about it that it is a wonder even so large a proportion as twenty-five per cent succeeds. Among our clients are all kinds of companies, from very small concerns up to railways, cities, and even Governments. Big companies fail in almost the same proportion as smaller ones; but their affairs are so complicated that it is difficult to use them to illustrate single points. Small businesses often turn for their success or failure upon a single point, because their affairs are simple.
Relational Format
article
Series Title
American Magazine, 1921 (March), pp.16, 58, 60, 62
Recommended Citation
Sells, Elijah Watt, "You can't judge your business by the past three years" (1921). Individual and Corporate Publications. 120.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/acct_corp/120