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“When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.”

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company

“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”

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Book:Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808

Source: Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“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.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”

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Author:J. P. Morgan

“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

“Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.”

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Author:Raymond Rubicam