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Quotations
On Business
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- That
which
is everybody's business
is nobody's business.—Izaak Walton.
- Formerly
when great fortunes
were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes
are only made by business, business is war.—Bovee.
- Call
on a
business man at business
times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your
business,
in order to give him time to finish his business.—Duke of Wellington.
- Men of
great parts are often
unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt
to go out of the common road by the quickness of their
imagination.—Swift.
- Rare
almost as great poets,
rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men
of
business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great
knowledge
of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right
moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements
of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and
is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his
enthusiasm.—Helps.
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- It is
very
sad for a man to
make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by
the
hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be
merely
a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I
should like to be also something of a man.—Theodore Parker.
- Not
because of any extraordinary
talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for
business
and not above it.—Tacitus.
- The
great
secret both of health
and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's
consciousness
to the business and diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to
infringe
in the least degree upon the other.—Sismondi.
- Few
people
do business well
who do nothing else.—Chesterfield.
- To men
addicted to delights,
business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business
is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended
a dull man for his application, "No thanks to him; if he had no
business,
he would have nothing to do."—Steele.
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