"Everybody's business is nobody's business." — Thomas B. Macaulay

"Everybody's business is nobody's business."

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
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
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot… — Gerard Arpey
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies… — David Arquette
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
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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