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1439 Businessman Quotes

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

Changes Life Making Now
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You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

About Anything Blame Change
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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

Acknowledge Aside Because Believe
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Anomaly Bell Difficult Dinner
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Woman absent is woman dead.

Absent Dead Woman
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honor Long Prevails
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Admiring Cure House Look
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Spectacle Agent Simply Also
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Victims Women Advances Become
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Divided Like Teeth Writers
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Reality Times Best Escape
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Nations Main Campaign Long
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Men Mind Result Impresses
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Concentrated Energy Essence Real
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Fault Man Misfortune Mother
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Virtuous Person Mean Mind
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Agreeable Greatest Mistake More
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Brings Down Family Idea
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art Best Casts Certain
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Long Punish Wish Unwise
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We are learning much about the Invisible Enemy. It is tough and smart, but we are tougher and smarter!

Invisible Enemy Tough Smart
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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Disappointment Discipline Must Pain
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Advance Clearness Dawn Difficulties
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Affirmation Beginning Delusion Discipline
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Door Good Good IdeaI Dea
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Better Easier More People
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The book you don't read won't help.
Book Help Read You
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Design Future Happiness Postpone
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Bring Get Hour Paid
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chances Design Else Fall
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Cannot Change Destination Direction
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Accomplishment Between Bridge Discipline
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Colors Important Notes Only
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