Business Quotes by Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

— Charles Dickens

“Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!”

— Charles Dickens

“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?”

— Charles Dickens

“the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.”

— Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

— Charles Dickens

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

— Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

— Charles Dickens

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

— Charles Dickens

“We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than…

— Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units…

— Charles Dickens

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”

— Charles Dickens

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other…

— Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result…

— Charles Dickens

“It's the whole point of the thing, you know—that, and leaving the business to take care of itself, as it seems to…

— Charles Dickens

“Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst”

— Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Why?" said Stryver. "Now, I'll put you in a corner," forensically shaking a forefinger at him. "You are a man of business…

— Charles Dickens

“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay,…

— Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried…

— Charles Dickens

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my…

— Charles Dickens

Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose…

— Charles Dickens

“I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour." Upon your what?" growled Sikes,…

— Charles Dickens

“He's a rum dog. Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company!' pursued the…

— Charles Dickens

“Business!”cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence,…

— Charles Dickens

“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they…

— Charles Dickens

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took…

— Charles Dickens

As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen…

— Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…

— Charles Dickens

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr. Vholes is a very respectable man. He has not a large business, but he is a very respectable man. He is…

— Charles Dickens

“He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he…

— Charles Dickens

“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself…

— Charles Dickens

“Therefore, he sat before his dying fire, sorrowful to think upon the way by which he had come to that night, yet…

— Charles Dickens

“All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The…

— Charles Dickens

“She has a fine genius for poetry, combined with real business earnestness, and "goes in"--to use an expression of Alfred's--for Woman's mission,…

— Charles Dickens

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever…

— Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it…

— Charles Dickens

“The whole business of the human race, between London and Dover, being spoliation, Mr Dorrit was waylaid at Dartford, pillaged at Gravesend,…

— Charles Dickens

“We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In…

— Charles Dickens

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of…

— Charles Dickens