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partner, and yet what else is he? Whenever a man finds the management 
of a business too much for his own time or strength, he calls in assistants to 
share the management with him. Why, then, if a man finds the production 
part of a business too much for his own two hands should he deny the title of 
“partner” to those who come in and help him produce? Every business that 
employs more than one man is a kind of partnership. The moment a man calls 
for assistance in his business—even though the assistant be but a boy—that 
moment he has taken a partner. He may himself be sole owner of the resources 
of the business and sole director of its operations, but only while he remains 
sole manager and sole producer can he claim complete independence. No 

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man is independent as long as he has to depend on another man to help him. 
It is a reciprocal relation—the boss is the partner of his worker, the worker is