"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed……" — Nicholas Murray Butler
"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail."
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25 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler has 25 quotes on this site.
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand…
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen,…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms…
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and…
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Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time…
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
— Buffalo Bill
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to…
— Maya Angelou
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to…
— Oswald Chambers
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