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本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导

The partnership at Carolina having succeeded, I was encourag'd to engage in others, and to promote several of my workmen, who had behaved well, by establishing them with printing-houses in different colonies, on the same terms with that in Carolina. Most of them did well, being enabled at the end of our term, six years, to purchase the types of me and go on working for themselves, by which means several families were raised. Partnerships often finish in quarrels; but I was happy in this, that mine were all carried on and ended amicably, owing, I think, a good deal to the precaution of having very explicitly settled, in our articles, every thing to be done by or expected from each partner, so that there was nothing to dispute, which precaution I would therefore recommend to all who enter into partnerships; for, whatever esteem partners may have for, and confidence in each other at the time of the contract, little jealousies and disgusts may arise, with ideas of inequality in the care and burden of the business, etc., which are attended often with breach of friendship and of the connection, perhaps with lawsuits and other disagreeable consequences.

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定位:Additional excerpt 126 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

在卡罗来纳的合伙生意成功后,我受到鼓励,又和其他人合伙,并提拔几个表现好的工人,用同样的条件在不同殖民地帮他们建立印刷所。他们大多干得不错,六年合同期满就能买下我的设备自己经营,好几家人因此翻身。合伙生意常以争吵收场,但我很幸运,我的合伙都友好进行并结束,我想这很大程度上归功于事先在协议里明确写清每个合伙人该做什么、能得到什么,没什么可争的。所以我建议所有合伙人都这么做:不管签约时多信任对方,日后都可能因计较谁出力多、谁负担重而心生嫉妒和不满,往往导致友情破裂、关系终止,甚至打官司等麻烦。

上下文

富兰克林在自传中总结自己多次合伙经营印刷所的经验,强调事先明确协议的重要性。

今日一问

你正在或打算合伙做事吗?是否已经把各自的责任和收益白纸黑字写清楚?

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