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本杰明·富兰克林:本杰明·富兰克林自传·补录 107
本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导
In 1733 I sent one of my journeymen to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanting. I furnish'd him with a press and letters, on an agreement of partnership, by which I was to receive one-third of the profits of the business, paying one-third of the expense. He was a man of learning, and honest but ignorant in matters of account; and, tho' he sometimes made me remittances, I could get no account from him, nor any satisfactory state of our partnership while he lived. On his decease, the business was continued by his widow, who, being born and bred in Holland, where, as I have been inform'd, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education, she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterwards, and managed the business with such success, that she not only brought up reputably a family of children, but, at the expiration of the term, was able to purchase of me the printing-house, and establish her son in it.
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1733年,富兰克林派一个雇工去南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿开印刷所,提供印刷机和铅字,约定合伙:他分三分之一利润,也担三分之一费用。那人有学问、诚实,却不懂记账,生前既没给清楚账目,也没交代合伙状况。他死后,妻子接手。她从小在荷兰受教育,懂会计,不仅把过去账目理清寄来,此后每季度都按时精确报账,经营很成功,养大孩子,还在合伙期满时买下印刷所,让儿子接手。这说明:合伙光看人品不够,账目制度才是关键。
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《富兰克林自传》中回忆他在殖民地扩展印刷生意的一次合伙经历,对比了丈夫和遗孀的经营能力。
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你的合伙或小生意,有没有一套不依赖对方人品也能看清账目的制度?
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