Art Quote by Samuel Johnson

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,

— Eric Hoffer

The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play…

— Richard Hofstadter

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his…

— Eric Hoffer

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

— Evan Esar

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole…

— Charles M. Schwab

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison

— Joshua Reynolds

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they…

— Edward Gibbon

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by…

— Henry Ford