Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.