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- Jackal and tiger as business partners. A2493.11.3.1
- Animals in business relations. B294
- Parrot transacts business of trader. B294.5
- Business relations of dwarfs and mortals. F451.5.10
- Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
- Test of curiosity: the clock. A man is promised a beautiful clock if he can mind his own business for a whole year. He does. The giver tells him he is the second man who almost made sure of getting the clock. The man asks how the other missed getting it; he loses the clock himself. H1554.2
- Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
- Unscrupulous conduct of business learned from observation of usurer's own practices and used against him. J56
- Shoemaker speaks ill of lord's rule. Lord takes his tools away from him. Shoemaker begs for them saying that he cannot carry on his business without them. Ruler: "I thought ruling was your business so I took your tools to learn shoemaking." J1289.7
- Not in his line of business. At market a man enquires of another: "How is the moon, three-quarters or full?" "I don't know. I have neither bought nor sold one." J1354
- Ten for the price of nine. A fool buys nine eggs and sells ten for the same price. He says that business is improving. J2083.4
- The dead man in spite of himself. Neighbors who have heard of the numskull's death insist on the funeral although he is alive and well. He is persuaded and is carried on a bier. They meet a busy man whom they try to persuade to join them. He pleads business. The "dead" man speaks: "It's no use, friend, to try to dissuade them." J2311.5
- Numskull puts money into the exchange so as to participate in the business. He hears that great lords take a part in the business of the exchange where he sees great heaps of money. He throws down a penny and says, "You may like it or not, but I want money in the exchange, too." J2428
- "Thank Fortune I'm out of business." Philosopher loses all his wealth at sea. Thanks Fortune for taking him out of business. Can now devote his life to philosophy. J2569
- Paramour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on business. K1517.10
- Wanted: a husband to manage estate. Widow who claims to abhor intimacy rejects a eunuch with business qualifications. K2052.4.2
- Modest business plans best. L250
- Lucky business venture. N410
- Wealthy usurer prays that the sons of the rich will become mad. That will benefit his business. His own sons lose their minds. P435.1
- Hero made business partner of rich man. Q111.1