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Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character. (Quote by - Maltbie Babcock)

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. (Quote by - Lord Edward Coke)

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content-- So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent. (Quote by - George Canning)

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. (Quote by - Milton Berle)

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me, but nobody listens! (Quote by - General John Gavin)

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. (Quote by - George Chapman)

In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. (Quote by - John Gay)

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? (Quote by - Bible)

Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven? (Quote by - John Dryden)

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. (Quote by - P. D. Armour)

Come home to men's business and bosoms. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner. (Quote by - Sigourney Weaver)

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

The nature of business is swindling. (Quote by - August Bebel)

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut. (Quote by - Jean Giradoux)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it! (Quote by - J. Pierpont Morgan)

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down. (Quote by - David Ricardo)

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood. (Quote by - Henry Hallam)

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)

Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings. (Quote by - Fitz-Greene Halleck)

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. (Quote by - Nicholas M. Butler)

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