Business Quote by Herman Melville

“Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been…

— Michel de Montaigne

“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

— Czesław Miłosz

“Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.”

— Frank Easterbrook

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

— George R.R. Martin

“...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.”

— M.J. Rose

“There are men who will not take the world as it is, who see to change things, to make an advantage for themselves.”

— Tim Stead

“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more important, endowed…

— Marcel Proust

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My…

— Jane Austen

“Great men are not so selfless.”

— Brent Weeks

“How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.”

— James Broughton