And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the read more

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind read more

This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid read more

From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu
sit.]

And gain is gain, however small.

And gain is gain, however small.