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A blind bargain.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Merrie Tales of the Madmen of Gottam
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Nation of shopkeepers.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Merrie Tales of the Madmen of Gottam
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There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: The Drummer (act V, sc. 1)
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Author: Manutius Aldus (Aldo Manuzio)
Source: on a placard placed in the door of his printing office
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Business tomorrow.
Author: Archias of Thebes
Source: founded on his words
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Come home to men's business and bosoms.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays (dedication of edition 9)
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There's no business like show business.
Author: Irving Berlin
Source: Annie Get Your Gun, title of a song
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Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the
honourable of the earth?
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXIII, v. 8)
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise,
I barter for curl upon that mart.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (XIX)
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried
is business ill done.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XXVI, Readers and Writer)
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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content--
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.
Author: George Canning
Source: in a dispatch to Sir Charles Bagot
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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make
heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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Despatch is the soul of business.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Letters
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You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Memories of the Courts of the Stuarts--Nassau and Hanover, to John Anstis, the Garter King of Arms a
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This business will never hold water.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not (act IV)
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They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor
excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Author: Lord Edward Coke
Source: Reports (vol. V, Case of Sutton's Hospital)
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A business with an income at its heels.
Author: William Cowper
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?
Author: John Dryden
Source: Persius (sat. V, l. 204)
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Work and Days
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In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables--Rat-Catcher and Cats (l. 43)
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Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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.
Author: Henry Hallam
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.
Author: Fitz-Greene Halleck
Source: Alnwick Castle
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: Table Talks (essay XXVII)
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If you have to ask, you can't afford it!
Author: J. Pierpont Morgan
Source: None
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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.
Author: Paul A. Volcker
Source: None
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Author: William A. Ward
Source: None
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Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Author: Andy Warhol
Source: None
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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.
Author: Tom Warga
Source: None
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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.
Author: Theodore H. White
Source: None
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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Author: Thomas J. Watson
Source: None
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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.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: None
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: None
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Author: Robin Williams
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Source: None
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Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
Author: Edward George Bulwer
Source: None
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Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Author: Charles F. Abbott
Source: None
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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.
Author: Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Source: None
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
Author: William Feather
Source: None
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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.
Author: Walter Bagehot
Source: None
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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: None
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Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
Author: Ki
Source: None
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Source: None
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Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Author: Henry R. Luce
Source: None
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A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Author: Frederick W. Smith
Source: None
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Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
Author: Lewis E. Pierson
Source: None
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Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
Author: Thomas J. Watson
Source: None
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Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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