"To take something from a person and keep……" — Octave Mirbeau
"To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger."
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Octave Mirbeau
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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau has 17 quotes on this site.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone,…
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast…
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of…
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s…
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism,…
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them…
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what…
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More Business Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— 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
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Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot…
— Gerard Arpey
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
— Chester A. Arthur
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel…
— Mary Kay Ash
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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
— Mary Kay Ash
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