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““Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.””
J.R.R. Tolkien
“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
Billie Holiday
“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind”
George Bernard Shaw
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”
Warren Buffett
“Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business”
Mark Twain
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Jane Austen
“A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine