One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to... write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent ...business man, our leading lawyer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civi...lizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no... man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One... must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half hi...s business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as neces...sary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business shou...ld always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »