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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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Hotelier and author Orison Swett Marden sat in a small bedroom on Bowdoin Street in Boston churning out the very first issue of SUCCESS Magazine. From early cover lines about why fine clothes are an asset in business to recent ones about how to turn social media followers into customers, the magazine has gone through a massive transformation.

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Paying Candidates for Interviews: What Should Be Covered and Why?

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“Also, if candidates are expected to travel more than an hour by car or train to an office that is not the office they would report to, we would expect to see the company offer some form of reimbursement.” Stonehouse says he’s even seen this happen in the form of gift cards. Are they to cover parking, transportation, meals and hotels?

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From the Archives: The Ultimate Cost of Penny-Pinching

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I know a rich man who has become such a slave to the habit of economizing, formed when he was trying to get a start in the world, that he has not been able to break away from it. He believes that a suit of clothes and a necktie should be worn until they are threadbare.

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The Founder of Black Girl Ventures Gets Things Done

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It came in the form of a T-shirt line which got off on the completely wrong foot but led to her first major success. “It She and her mom hustled at events all over selling the clothing items and eventually made it into Essence magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide for a line of infant bodysuits. It sucked and nobody bought it.

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Sustainability, Well-being, and the Building Blocks of a Biophilic Workplace

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This article was originally written by Perkins&Will’s Leigh Christy for Work Design Magazine. Passive techniques such as shade and natural ventilation enable the building to help regulate the comfort level of the occupant while the occupant supports their personal comfort in the form of clothing selection and other factors.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

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Even though this finally gave them a stable home, different forms of abuse persisted. In addition to raising money via traditional methods, they’ve also opened a for-profit boutique called Janice Vaincre Boutique to raise money via the sale of clothes and other items. She moved in with him, only to experience domestic violence.

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