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“A business with an income at its heels.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Retirement (l. 614)
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“Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Persius (sat. V, l. 204)
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“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Work and Days
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“In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables--Rat-Catcher and Cats (l. 43)
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“Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village, lines actually added to Goldsmith's work by Samuel Johnson
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“A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers
into all its neighborhood.”
Henry Hallam Quotes Source: View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (ch. IX)
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“Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,
The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,
The Douglas in red herrings.”
Fitz-Greene Halleck Quotes Source: Alnwick Castle
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“They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.”
William Hazlitt Quotes Source: Table Talks (essay XXVII)
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“If you have to ask, you can't afford it!”
J. Pierpont Morgan Quotes |
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“What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.”
Paul A. Volcker Quotes |
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“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.”
William A. Ward Quotes |
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“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”
Andy Warhol Quotes |
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“This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image.”
Tom Warga Quotes |
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“If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.”
Theodore H. White Quotes |
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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
Thomas J. Watson Quotes |
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“Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
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“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
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“Carpe per diem - seize the check.”
Robin Williams Quotes |
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“In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”
William Wordsworth Quotes |
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“Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.”
Maria Edgeworth Quotes |
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“Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.”
Edward George Bulwer Quotes |
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“Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.”
Charles F. Abbott Quotes |
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“Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.”
Maltbie Davenport Babcock Quotes |
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“Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.”
William Feather Quotes |
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“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.”
Walter Bagehot Quotes |
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