title: Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket: Strategies to Get More for Your Money
author: Robert Tevis
description: Robert E. Tevis gained his negotiation skills through study and his work. He holds an MBA in Management for Managers of Technology. He has spent almost twenty-five years in business working both for IBM and in management for Siemens. One of his greatest pleasures is seeing someone use these skills successfully.
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  Hand and Heart  
    
  
  
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  # Hand and Heart
  
  
  ### Elizabeth Gaskell
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Mother, I should so like to have a great deal of money," said little Tom
  Fletcher one evening, as he sat on a low stool
  
  
  by his mother's knee. His mother was knitting busily by the firelight, and
  they had both been silent for some time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "What would you do with a great deal of money, if you had it?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Oh! I don't know—I would do a great many things. But should not you like to
  have a great deal of money, mother?"
  
  
  persisted he.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Perhaps I should," answered Mrs. Fletcher. "I am like you sometimes, dear,
  and think that I should be very glad of a
  
  
  little more money. But then I don't think I am like you in one thing, for I
  have always some little plan in my mind for
  
  
  which I should want