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| Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business |
| Mark Twain |
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| Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. |
| Samuel Butler |
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| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. |
| Paul Valery |
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| Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. |
| W. Edwards Deming |
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| Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. |
| Karl Marx |
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| So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces |
| Havelock Ellis |
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| The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. |
| Henry Ford |
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| The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid |
| Will Rogers |
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| The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
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