BUSINESS

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1. Build your business as you build your life. Have your big moments; but don't try to be spectacular all the time.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
   

2. A business is safe and sound and durable only when it has back of it a safe and sound and durable public opinion.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
   

3. There is only one way to look upon a business, if you are genuinely interested in its welfare. You must look upon it from a long-range viewpoint; and you must do nothing today that will take a toll out of it tomorrow.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
   

4. In fact, you can write it down as a truism that the most difficult thing in the world for a business to get is a good reputation—something which sets it apart, in the public consciousness, from other businesses of its kind.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
   

5. What are called business habits were invented to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movements rival the train in punctuality. The factory system was invented, and it was an instantaneous success. Men were clothed with cheapness and uniformity. Their minds grew numerously alike, cheap and uniform also.—A. E., Cooperation and Nationality
   

6. Talk of nothing but business, and despatch that business quickly.—ALDUS MANUTIUS
   

7. The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.—ANACHARSIS, Diogenes Laertius
   

8. The playthings of our elders are called business.—ST. AUGUSTINE, Confessions

9. The business man has steered a veering course. He has favored peace and war, unity and chaos, mystery and science, according to the immediate prospects of profit. Other men, warriors and rulers, may have sought gold more greedily than he, but they could at least pretend to other ends, whereas he was never able to work up a similar, sustained hocus-pocus about his activities, or hold up even an illusory goal. He had no .. . discoverable ultimate purpose.—MIRIAM BEARD, History of the Business Man
   

10. The word Business has attracted a veneration almost equal to that bestowed on Science. But even this has been only a partial triumph, for the mere addition of the word "big" is enough to ruin the atmosphere—the populace will not hear of Big Business as a suitable aim of supreme human effort.—MIRIAM BEARD, History of the Business Man
    

11. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.—Bible, Proverbs 22:29
    

12. In the field of modern business, so rich in opportunity for the exercise of man's finest and most varied mental faculties and moral qualities, mere money-making cannot be regarded as the legitimate end. Neither can mere growth in bulk or power be admitted as a worthy ambition. Nor can a man nobly mindful of his serious responsibilities to society, view business as a game; since with the conduct of business human happiness or misery is inextricably interwoven.—JUSTICE BRANDEIS
    

13. Success must be sought in business also in excellence of performance; and in business, excellence of performance manifests itself among other things, in the advancing of methods and processes; in the improvement of products; in more perfect organization, eliminating friction as well as waste; in bettering the condition of the workingmen, developing their faculties and promoting their happiness; and in the establishment of right relations with customers and with the community.—JUSTICE BRANDEIS
    

14. Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
    

15. Despatch is the soul of business.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
    

16. I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner.—PETER COOPER
    

17. A business with an income at its heels
    Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.—COWPER, Retirement
    

18. Like inscriptions over the graves of dead businesses.—DICKENS, Our Mutual Friend
    

19. Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.—DUMAS THE YOUNGER, La Question d'Argent
    

20. We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade? Has he not a calling in his character?—EMERSON, Essays
    

21. A business, like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.—B. C. FORBES, Forbes Epigrams

22. And, if you want it, he
    Makes a reduction on taking a quantity.—W. S. GILBERT, The Sorcerer

23. Big business makes its money out of by-products.—ELBERT HUBBARD

24. The aim of all legitimate business is service, for profit, at a risk.—B. C. LEEMING, Imagination

25. There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.—LOWELL, New England Two Centuries Age.

26. The typical successful American business man was born in the country, where he worked like hell so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.—DON MARQUIS

27. Business is a combination of war and sport.—ANDRE MAUROIS

28. Business is Business.—OCTAVE MIRBEAU, Title of Play

29. Without any sort of business, is forever busy.—MOLIERE, Le Misanthrope

30. Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see what a deal of business goes off a man's hands when he stays by it.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary

31. He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.—Proverb

32. Men that have much business must have much pardon.—Proverb

33. Do business, but be not a slave to it.—Proverb

34. How happy the life unembarassed by the cares of business!—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

35. We demand that big business give people a square deal.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
    

36. It is easy to escape from business, if you will only despise the rewards of business.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
    

37. To business that we love we rise be-time,
    And go to 't with delight.—SHAKESPEARE,Antony and Cleopatra
    

38. Every man has business and desire, such as it is.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

39. Has this fellow no feeling of his business?—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

40. Our conclusion is that a business man can, if he so wills, be a man of honor. A physician is engaged in a highly competitive profession. Most physicians must live by their fees, and they do not forget to send in their bills. But the great majority of physicians we venture to believe, fight disease and rejoice in victory not merely for the sake of their own profit but for the sake of their patients also. A business man may, if he will, take precisely the same attitude toward his customers.—SHARP & Fox, Business Ethics
    

41. A reputable concern can remain in existence only as it supplies the needs of a considerable number of persons. And the kind of service it gives and the cost of such service is a matter that may concern these customers deeply. Since their interests are involved, directly or indirectly, in all its transactions, they have a claim not merely to be treated honestly, but also intelligently.—SHARP & Fox,
    Business Ethics

42. A man who has no office to go to—I don't care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.—BERNARD SHAW, The Irrational Knot
    

43. Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst.—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
    

44. Mazzini: I am afraid all the captains of industry are what you call frauds, Mrs. Hushabye. Of course there are some manufacturers who really do understand their own works; but they don't make as high a rate of profit as Mangan does.—BERNARD SHAW, Heartbreak House
    

45. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.—STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
    

46. He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.—TACITUS, History
    

47. When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.—WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR.
    

48. Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.—WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife
    

49. It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.—OWEN D. YOUNG, Business in the sense of personal affairs.
    

50. "If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a great deal faster than it does."—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
    

51. Let every man mind his own business.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

52. This business will never hold water.—COLLEY CIBBER, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not
    

53. An honest business never blush to tell.—HOMER, Odyssey
    

54. I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which
    is everybody's business is nobody's business.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler