Business Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

16 Business quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson’s poetic voice lends a unique texture to business reflections, turning ordinary concepts into memorable, thought‑provoking statements.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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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.

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“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”

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“This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no,…

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For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a…

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I…

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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by…

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“Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business.…

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A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the…

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“The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us…

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“In short, the first duty of a man is to speak; that is his chief business in this world; and talk, which…

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“From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours,…

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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their…

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“The supply of subjects was a continual trouble to him as well as to his master. In that large and busy class,…

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate…

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more…

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“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,…

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“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to…

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and…

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,…

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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with…

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