“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”
Benjamin Brewster (1828–1897) American businessman
J. Jonathan Gabay. Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium, p. 550. Elsevier 2007.
Globe Asia Interview, Sep, 2015. http://www.inside-rge.com/Sukanto-Tanoto-Resource-King-GlobeAsia <br class="br">2015
“A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.”
Benjamin Brewster (1828–1897) American businessman
J. Jonathan Gabay. Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium, p. 550. Elsevier 2007.
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) American scientist and inventor
Comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting, as quoted in The Icarus Paradox : How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal (1990) by Danny Miller, p. 126
“The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.”
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) Poet
Quoted by Louis Untermeyer in Modern British Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=GiwMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+poet's+business%22+%22is+not+to+save+the+soul+of+man+but+to+make+it+worth+saving%22&pg=PA178#v=onepage (1920)
Rodney Williams (1947) Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)
Rodney Williams (2019) cited in: " Caribbean disability conference: ‘we are an opportunity, not a burden’ https://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/caribbean-disability-conference-we-are-opportunity-not-burden" in The Commonwealth, 6 December 2019.
Eric Hoffer book The True Believer
Section 10
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
“I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Letter to Richard Mayor (July 1650)
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech in Stockport (8 June 1973), quoted in The Times (9 June 1973), p. 3
1970s