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The Perfect Home Book Collection - Joe Carroll

Each volume of The Perfect Home book collection focuses on one fo the many facets of the home environment ot today. Exquisite photography inspires, stirs creativity, and infuses a sense of harmony and wellbeing. The Perfect Home by Furniture Today Publisher Joseph F. Carroll asks: What aspects of the home are most important to us? How do we furnish our home to make us comfortable and secure? Get the answers to these questions and more. Order yours today:

Perfect Home Complete Collection
Best of Style
Celebrity Designer Collections
Living In Style
Making Room for Kids

Furniture Retailing 101 - Jim Green

I have always believed that a person really doesn’t learn much from success. Don’t get me wrong…I have nothing against success and I have always preferred it to failure. But, I never really learned much from it. When something worked, it just worked. What was there to learn? But, when something failed…really bombed…I certainly learned from that. I definitely discovered what NOT to do. Will Rogers once said, “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment”. Thomas Edison remarked that, “I found five thousand ways how not to make a light bulb” after so many of his experiments had failed. Then, finally, one experiment succeeded and the electric light was born. Like Edison, when faced with failure a person must learn to look for and examine its causes and then formulate a plan to remedy the problem. This is called active “Learning”. One must then seek out and act in ways that will not result in the same negative outcomes. Speaking from experience, sometimes it is even conceivable for a person to make the same mistake twice.

Furniture Retailing 101: The Complete Series
Furniture Retailing 101: The Business
Furniture Retailing 101: The Merchandise
Furniture Retailing 101: The Strategic Concepts

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