#bus

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's make−up, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result. ↗

— Harold Bell Wright

#friendship #friendships #business

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#politics #business

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in the story that is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#business

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands. ↗

— Dan James

#leadership #business

Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about. ↗

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#writing #business

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #rock-star #small-business #business

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it. ↗

— Isabel Hoving

#commerce #cross-cultural #international #trade #business

The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness". ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#business

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte) ↗

— Southey

#literature #business

إن البشر يترابطون بصورة أفضل عندما تجمعهم أشياء مشتركة ، وبكون لديهم إحساس بالمشاركة ↗

— Lani Arredondo

#sharing #business