Business Quotes

• "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."
  By: Sir Arthur Helps
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• "They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill."
  By: William Hazlitt (1), Table Talk (essay XXVII)
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• "Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings."
  By: Fitz-Greene Halleck, Alnwick Castle
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• "In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree."
  By: John Gay, Fables--Rat-Catcher and Cats (l. 43)
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• "Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it."
  By: Owen Felltham (Feltham)
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• "Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers."
  By: William Feather
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• "Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?"
  By: John Dryden, Persius (sat. V, l. 204)
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• "Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past."
  By: Peter F. Drucker
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• "A business exists to create a customer."
  By: Peter F. Drucker
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• "He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business."
  By: William Cowper
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• "Business will be either better or worse."
  By: Calvin Coolidge
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• "The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done."
  By: Lucinus Junius Moderatus Columella
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• "The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."
  By: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson, by Richard Linthicum
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• "A silly old man who did not understand even his silly old trade."
  By: Lord Richard Bethell Westbury, 1st Baron Westbury, of a witness from the Herald's College
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• "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."
  By: Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
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