Christian Nestell Bovee: Quotes about business

Christian Nestell Bovee was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on business.
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“Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 82.

War , Business

“Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 83.

Idea , Business , Knowledge , Science

“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 84.

Men , World , Business , Thinking