The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
The first Mistake in publick Business, is the going into it.
Physicists always publish their researches completely. If our discovery has a commercial future, that is an accident by which we must not profit. And radium is going to be of use in treating disease… It seems to me impossible to take advantage of that.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
My business is too hard, for my business is arousing human sympathy.[Mein Geschäft ist zu schwierig, denn mein Geschäft ist es, das menschliche Mitleid zu erwecken.]
Life is a business.[La vie est une affaire.]
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.[Das Leben ein Geschäft, das nicht die Kosten deckt.]
Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.[Laissons le cœur. Les affaires se font comme des affaires, et non comme des romans, avec de la sensiblerie.]
