The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Business Quotes

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason...

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason...

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.

We may give advice but we cannot give conduct.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Our necessities never equal our wants

Our necessities never equal our wants

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one...

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one...

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

There is no little enemy

There is no little enemy

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough...

It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults....

It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults....

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...