#ss

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) ↗