Chief Business Quotes
20 quotes by 15 authors
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The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
— William Graham Sumner
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I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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The chief business of the American people is business.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
— Robin G. Collingwood
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Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that…
— Giacomo Casanova
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As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief…
— Alexander Borodin
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The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works…
— William Graham Sumner
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
— Virginia Woolf
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
— J C Ryle
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.
— H. L. Mencken
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.…
— Lewis Mumford
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their…
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
— William Graham Sumner
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When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business
— Calvin Coolidge
Who Wrote These Chief Business Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 20 Chief Business Quotes as follows: