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Canada was open for business. And closed for everything else.
In civil business;What first? Boldness;What second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Men of business have a solid judgment, a wonderful guessing power of what isgoing to happen, each in his own trade, but they have never practised themselves in reasoning out their judgments and in supporting their guesses byargument; probably if they did so, some of the finer and correcter parts of their anticipations would vanish.
They talk a good game, but economists hardly know enough about business cycles to figure out where they come from, let alone where they're going.
In Atlanta, the first question is'What's your business?' In Macon, it is 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they want your grandmother's maiden name.But in Savannah, the first question is'What would you like to drink?'
There's No Business Like Show Business.
They that go down to thesea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the L, and his wonders in the deep.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
If we are to negotiate, I envisage that we shall playan essentially modest role; that of an honest broker who really intends to do business.
Most business meetings are staged to supply people who'd rather talk than work with people who'd rather listen than work.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.
'If everybody minded their own business,'the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl,'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'
Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
The chief business of the American people is business.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my Administration has been minding my own business.
Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.
Pleasure is a thief to business.
What's the aim of the school of business, for example? They teach students how business is conducted today and how to perpetuate it. Any wonder we're in trouble? They ought to be preparing students for the future, not for the past.
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Glory Be, whin Business gets above sellin'tinpinny nails Durkheim in a brown paper cornucopy,'tis hard to tell it fr'm murther.
Corruption is more than a poison afflicting Chinese business life. It is Chinese business life.
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
What a dull, insipid thing is a billet-doux written in cold blood, after the heat of the business is over!
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for whattheyare worth and sell them for whatthey think theyare worth.
From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingnobody tells me anything.
I think business is very simple.Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
Delegimus certum otium studiorum, quam incertum negotium bellorum. We have opted for the certain leisure of study, rather than the uncertain business of war.
To be successful in business, you should produce something cheap, habit-forming, and consumed by use.
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
All in all, if one sought to design a life style which was destructive of the individual, the way that business has structured itself would seem to be almost ideal.
It is a commercial paper, a paper of business, and it is conducted on principles of trade and business. It floats with the tide: it sails with the stream. It has no other principle.
What your government believes is its own business; what it does in the world is the world's business.
The main business of socialist parties is not to form governments but to change minds.
The Japanese should have no concern with business.
Who first invented workand tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business?
I take it for granted that every Christian that is in health is up early in the morning; for it is much more reasonable to suppose a person up early because he is a Christian than becausehe is a labourerora tradesmanora servant or has business that wants him.
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey.
Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.
While the journalist exists merelyas the publicity agent of big business, a large circulation, got by fair means or foul, is a newspaper's one and onlyaim.
Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill- defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
No praying, it spoils Business,
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
Music and women Icannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
As Einstein once said, ordinary life in an ordinary day in the modern world is a dreary business. I mean dreary. People will do anything just to escape this dreariness.
Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.
The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' Rodriguez principlesqualities like love and care and intuition.
Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has? The United Statesisthebiggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.
Medicine is a noble profession but a damn bad business.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.
What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion?You ought to know, that as both always wear off,'tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
I'm called away by particular business. But I leave my character behind me.
When someone says,'It isgood business', you may be sure it is bad morality.
What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.
The professionof book writing makeshorseracing seem like a solid, stable business.
It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great deal better for the health.
This little book contains none of your damn business.
I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep,just a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were.
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.
We were to do more business after dinner, but after dinner is after dinneran old saying and a true,'much drinking, little thinking'.
Business first; pleasure afterwards
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together.
So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare's day.
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
It has been a damned serious businessBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!
'You're a Christian?' 'Church of England,'said Mr Polly. 'Mm,'said the employer, a little checked.'For good all round business work, I should have preferred a Baptist.'
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearwhat remains? Nature remains.
We havefought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged.
A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.
My whole life have I lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good.
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