Faultless honesty is a sine qua non of business life. Not alone the honesty according to the moral code and the Bible. When I spea...k of honesty I refer to the small, hidden, evasive meannesses of our natures. I speak of the honesty of ourselves to ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the ... thing I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, n...ever! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. Fo...r from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh Doris Lessing, my dear--your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love--any more than that other Anna's fall under... the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It's all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms--like every family has color TV--and we can all get on with the real business of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This va...nity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To give pleasure to a few wretched souls; the knowledge that human nature craves the good things of life, in terms of nourishment,... and needs beauty in form and color, as its companion; utilization of imagination and a long-suppressed love of the beautiful to conquer a difficult decorative problem; abiding faith that in all life two things alone are necessary, love and beauty, and that in business as well as elsewhere they are essential to a true success, and, adopted as a business principle will lead to success--these were the foundation stones on which this business, the result of twenty years of hard labor, was laid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chi...efly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it i...s regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for--business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostra...cism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »