It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna read more

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, read more

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content--
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.

You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl read more

You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,