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Business Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
- I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are…
- If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
- The business of life is to go forward.
- A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
- A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and…
- It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
- Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
- To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy…
- It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge…
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur