We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than ourselves
We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than ourselves
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
The business of the law is to increase the business of the law
Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.
Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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