Skip to content

Robert Louis Stevenson on Business

1850–1894 Scotland

← All quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

3 quotes

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

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

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Louis Stevenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.