5 quotes
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.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
There is Reason to think the most celebrated Philosophers would have been Bunglers at Business ; but the Reason is because they despised it.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)
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.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750)