The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Quote by Charles Dickens
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
- I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
- A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
- Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
- I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
- Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
- The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Best Quotes
- The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
- With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
- Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
- We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
- The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.