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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - Business Quotes

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A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.

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State business is a cruel trade; good nature is a bungler in it.

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Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man.

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There is Reason to think the most celebrated Philosophers would have been Bunglers at Business ; but the Reason is because they despised it.

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Men in business are in as much danger from those that work under them, as from those that work against them.

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It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

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The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.

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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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Born: November 11, 1633
Died: April 5, 1695 (aged 61)
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