Elbert Hubbard's business "Credo":

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=================================== I believe in myself. I believe in the goods I sell. I believe in the firm for whom I work. I believe in my colleagues and helpers. I believe in American business methods. I believe in producers, creators, manufacturers, distributors, and in all industrial workers of the world who have a job, and hold it down. I believe that Truth is an asset. I believe in good cheer and in good health, and I recognize the fact that the first requisite in success is not to achieve the dollar, but to confer a benefit, and that the reward will come automatically, and usually as a matter of course. I believe in sunshine, fresh air, spinach, applesauce, laughter, buttermilk, babies, bombazine and chiffon, always remembering that the greatest word in the English language is "Sufficiency." I believe that when I make a sale I make a friend. And I believe that when I part with a man I must do it in such a way that when he sees me again he will be glad - and so will I. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love. Amen, and Amen. ~Elbert Hubbard, farmer, businessman, father, (1856-1915)~