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More "Business life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has its complications, but with proper restrictions these are not serious. There is no more danger of women developing bold or masculine qualities of character in a college where co-education exists than in the high schools, or in social and business life outside of college. The charm and beauty of a lady are found in the qualities of modesty and grace. The private life of the ladies attending a college where co-education exists is in most cases so regulated as to secure such home care and retirement as will help to preserve the ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker
... was both buccaneer and author, and when he had finished his piratical career he wrote a book in which he gave a full account of it, thus showing that although he had not been brought up to a business life, he had ...
— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton
... scatters, instead of concentrates his mind powers, who keeps himself and others in a state of continual irritation by forgetting, mislaying, and losing, three petty vices which do much to mar domestic or business life. ...
— The Heart of the New Thought • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... of quixotic ideals. The statesmen of Europe once more viewed affairs through the colored prism of national selfishness. In America, where Wilsonian ideals had at best been imperfectly appreciated, men were wearied by international problems and longed for a return to the simple complexity of the business life which they understood. The President was confronted by a double problem. He must win from Europe acceptance of his programme, crystallized in the League of Nations; from his fellow countrymen he must secure the support necessary if the United States ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour
... observed in the social or business life of the Jew, so far as your personal experience has gone, any different standard of conduct than prevails among Christians ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... midst of his business life, when he was carrying a vast spread of sail (making canals, laying out towns, deep in all sorts of enterprises), the panic of 1837 struck him, laid him on his beam ends, and almost put him under water. He owed an immense sum of money—small, indeed, ...
— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton
... been through it all and knew it in the land of Bills and Jims — Using Peter's own expression, they had been in 'various swims'. Now and then they'd take an office, as they called it, — make a dash Into business life as 'agents' — something not requiring cash. (You can always furnish cheaply, when your cash or credit fails, With a packing-case, a hammer, and a pound of two-inch nails — And, maybe, a drop of varnish and sienna, ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson
... it was, just as Obermuller had vowed it was, with Tausig's cramped little signature followed by Heffelfinger's, Dixon's and Weinstock's; a scheme to crush the business life out of men by the cleverest, up-to-date Trust deviltry; a thing that our Uncle Sammy just ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... they began life without a dollar, have accumulated property and acquired influence, and are today men of public affairs, able to stand, persevere and prevail in the fierce struggles and competitions of business life. These mercantile strides the members of our race are taking in the face of proscription and oppression, in the face of the administration of unjust laws and in the face of disfranchisement and barbarous ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various
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