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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can not truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, You are gonna have to move, you are blocking a fire exit. As though if there was a fire, I was not gonna run. If you are flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

It is time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.