Quotes of Occupation - somelinesforyou

“ The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ”

- S. G. Tallentyre

“ The bottom line is that there are 400,000 frozen embryos in the United States, and a large percentage of those are going to be thrown out. Regardless of what you think the moral status of those embryos is, it makes sense to me that it's a better moral decision to use them to help people than just to throw them out… ”

- James Thomson

“ Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Get the job done. ”

- Don Shula

“ God will forgive me. That's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. ”

- Malcolm McLaren

“ Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. ”

- B. F. Harris

“ Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation. ”

- S. I. Hayakawa

“ Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual.". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. ”

- Socrates

“ Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. ”

- Washington Irving

“ God will pardon me. It's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ”

- Edward Young

“ The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ”

- Bible

“ It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ”

- Guillaume Apollinaire

“ If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along — whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ”

- Bernard Meltzer

“ Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.". ”

- Paul Graham

“ I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ”

- Tom Fatjo
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