A man of business will often ...

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.