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- 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 (1856 - 1950)
- I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
- Malcom Forbes
- Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.
- Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow'', 1932
- The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
- Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
- It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Salmon of Doubt, 2002
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
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