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“If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.”

People Ifs Men Enough Left Business Failing He Man Responsible China

Author:Will Rogers

“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.”

“There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.”

Men Firsts Kind Made Two Together Business Class He Man One Man Rolling First Class

Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens

“The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.”

Men Long Has Beens Fighting Business He Man Development Industry Men And Women Surprise Proof Experiments Long Day

Book:New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits

Source: New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits

“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

Men Want Real Values Business Trouble He Man Cost Acquire Toil

Author:Adam Smith

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”

Knows Men Inspirational Years Wells Mean Ends Chance Results Business Attention He Man Rewards Patient Affair Attainment

Book:The Empire of Business

Source: The Empire of Business

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”