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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.”

Men Certain Business Knowing Failing Promise Financial Finance

Author:E. W. Howe

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.”

Men May Children Two Soul Would Be Certain Understanding Business Mark Two Things Honored Cradle Repose Troublesome Agitation Prodigals Commendable Thrifty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.”

Ifs Action Certain Social Lines Business Responsibility Responsible Agree Bottom Corporate Corporations Social Responsibility Bottom Line No Point Good Business Labeling Corporate Social Responsibility

Author:Robert Reich

“That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.”

Certain Business Forever Achievement Happenings Awful Permanent Unexpected Stability

Author:Alice Foote MacDougall

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Ends Wisdom Success Certain Business Knowledge Doubt Certainty Advancement Open Mind Doubted Certain Knowledge Doubt And Certainty

Author:Francis Bacon

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

Science Certain Loses Numbers Business Greater Adventure Travel Approach Certainty Loser Tickets Funny Travel Lottery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

“The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .”

Certain Business Negotiation

Author:Leigh Steinberg

“One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.”

Certain Business Mistake One Thing Making Mistakes

Book:Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Source: Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

“There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error”

Helping Problem Certain Business Mistake Courage Air Degrees Guilt Errors Satisfaction Solve Defensiveness

Book:How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People