No legitimate business man ever got started on the road to permanent success by any other means than that of hard, intelligent work, coupled with an earned credit, plus character. --F.D. Van AmburghProfessionals are people who can do their job when they don’t feel like it. Amateurs are people who can’t do their job when they do feel like it. --AnonymousThe person who minds nobody’s business but his own is probably a millionaire. --AnonymousThe true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.--Marcus Aurelius AntoninusBusiness or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary, but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. --AristotleBusiness is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.  --Maltbie BabcockIn all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. --Francis BaconBusiness is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. --Walter BagehotOur problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. --Bernard M. Baruch