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No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.


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LORD CHESTERFIELD Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK What right does the governor have to say who I do business with and who I don?t do business with?
DAN GROGAN Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that p...
DADA BHAGWAN Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a f...
SAM WALTON It will do nothing for the vast number of business and residential users who are being disadvantaged...
ERNIE NEWMAN When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't d...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of t...
HOWARD DEAN No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ...
PROTAGORAS The man who is truly meek is the one who is amazed that God and man can think of him as well as they...
DR. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
KAHLIL GIBRAN People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to t...
LEONARDO DA VINCI You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the e...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Few people truly understand the difference between faith and belief. Few people understand that mira...
CHRISTOPHER W. FORTNEY You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, four...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE) There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ...
CYRUS CURTIS Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN First share who you are, then share what you do.
LORRIN L. LEE The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ...
PROTAGORAS Be careful, spend less,earn more
SOTONYE ANGA The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who k...
GIACOMO CASANOVA A business card is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by networking well.
LILY CHATTERJEE In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY No one is free who does not lord over himself.
CLAUDIUS It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE I don?t do business with someone who is hurting my business, and I?m bashed for this?
DAN GROGAN People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who...
BERNARD PIVOT The government cannot do business with a man who said such a horrible thing about our ill prime mini...
IDO HARTUV He who does it first may do well, but he who does it best will do better.
SCOTT ALLEN People who don’t feel insulted by the ungodliness and injustice around them do not do anything abo...
SUNDAY ADELAJA They just weren't well thought through and well structured. So that has to be addressed. Governments...
PAUL TAGLIABUE I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class p...
V. S. NAIPAUL I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing
OLIVER GOLDSMITH People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as bette...
PATRICIA FRIPP To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the governmen...
ANDREW DOMINIK The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competit...
ROY L. SMITH Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who ...
ALAN ADLER They deserve no respect those who do not respect their peers. No tolerance those who violate the dig...
MARIANA FULGER Ultimately, your business success is determined by your sales revenue and profits.  Nothing else. O...
KENNETH DARRYL BROWN All empires fall, eventually.”
“But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems t...
MAX BARRY He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
EDWARD WOOD, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX You don't do business with an institution. You do business with people.
DEBBIE FIELDS We will not do business with him, only with other evangelicals who don't back these comments.
IDO HARTUV I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us ...
ROONE ARLEDGE People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
ANDREW CARNEGIE ...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those prod...
LUDWIG VON MISES Those who always speak well of women do not know them sufficiently; those who always speak ill of th...
GUILLAUME PIGUALT-LEBRUN . . . it tastes well, the bread which you earn yourself.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Prophecy is True and Sacred and should never be mishandled by people who have no business speaking a...
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE. It's an advantage for the client to have the auditor, who knows more about the business than anyone,...
ART BOWMAN Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling allian...
WALTER MONDALE The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the d...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We had no business being in the golf course business. We are all developers in our previous occupati...
DOUG VANCE Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don...
NUNO ROQUE Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don&...
VIKRAM CHATWAL To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he...
BALTASAR GRACIAN A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would ...
MARTIN BERMAN-GORVINE Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it b...
HENRY FORD And if you should ask them who created them, they would certainly say: Allah. Whence are they then t...
QURAN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN I don't really get much business from the people who frequent the DMV. It's kind of further away. Mo...
JEFF STEIN How do we get our business to work when we get rid of the people who do the work? It's a plan for ex...
JACK HANLEY There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and th...
CYRUS H. K CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and tho...
CYRUS H. CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and thos...
CYRUS H. CURTIS The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can ...
ERNEST HELLO One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for t...
PROVERB History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX People still come in sometimes expecting the previous business to still be in business. It's kind of...
BOB HUGHES If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespe...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from...
JAMES CASH PENNEY People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of em...
THOMAS JEFFERSON History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living m...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and...
LLOYD JONES There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want...
ALICE S. ROSSI A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SIDNEY MADWED Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED

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LORD CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Ridicule is the best test of truth
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of thin...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD If you will please people, you must please them in your own way.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
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LORD CHESTERFIELD What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation betwe...
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sacrifice to the Graces.
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EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
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WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
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