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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ”
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. ”
Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend. ”
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. ”
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ”
After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee. ”
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything. ”
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen. ”
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. ”
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air. ”