This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It in...terrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work, ...if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who... are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, a...nd may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.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 »
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 »
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new da...nger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughin...g is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »