Darkly Comical Quotes on Business

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
– C. Malesherbes

He’s no failure. He’s not dead yet. – W.L.George

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of phiosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
– H. Kellogg

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
–Johnson

The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expedience; the other acts on enduring principles.
– Burke

Education is anything we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else. – Lyman Bryson

Earn a little, and spend a little—less. – John Stevenson

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step in something better. – Wendell Phillips

To live is not to learn, but to apply. – Legouve

Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men daily breathe it and do not know it.
– Thomas A. Edison

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
– Cicero

When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by. – Spanish Proverb