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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing.

A skillful trade is better than an inherited fortune.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.

The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom.

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.

Men of great parts are of the unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Secrecy is the soul of business.

To business that we love, we rise betimes, and go to it with delight.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude than by mental capacities.

If the Golden Rule is to be preached at all in these modern days, when so much of our life is devoted to business, it must be preached especially in its application to the conduct of business.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business formed on friendship.