When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business o...f the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business.... But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of the...ir own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, i...nvesting and prospering in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not claim that all women, or a large portion of them, should enter into independent business relations with the world, but I ...do claim that all women should cultivate and respect in themselves an ability to make money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the hu...man currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it... in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance: That tune, they been playin' it all day. What is it? Dude: Oh, it's some Mexican piece. I heard it farther south....<...br />Colorado: Well, they call it "The Deguello," the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had them bottled up in the Alamo. Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it? Chance: No quarter, no mercy for the loser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »