Chief Business Quotes

20 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
The chief business of the American people is business. — Calvin Coolidge
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Robin G. Collingwood
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
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
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
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
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. — H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. — George Bernard Shaw
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
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. — William Graham Sumner
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
After all, the chief business of the American people is business — Calvin Coolidge

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