„Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.“

Fischerisms (1944)

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Martin H. Fischer18

American university teacher (1879-1962) 1879 - 1962

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„Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements. Whatever else they may say, my booze has been good and my games have been on the square. Public service has been my motto.“

— Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947

Game, Drink, People, Cooking

„Among various games of man created to engage his mind, gambling is the most interesting and which comes the nearest to life's gain-loss, rise-fall.“

— Laxmi Prasad Devkota Nepali poet 1909 - 1959

जूवा (Gambling)

Life, Game, Loss

„While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.“

— Akio Morita Japanese businessman 1921 - 1999

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Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 173.

Business

„Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.“

— Richard Arnold Epstein American physicist 1927

Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Four, Coins, Wheels, And Oddments, p. 75

History, Game, Time

„In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind.“

— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

Nature

„I enjoy gambling, I find ample opportunity in gambling to engage my mind and study.“

— Laxmi Prasad Devkota Nepali poet 1909 - 1959

जूवा (Gambling)

Study

„Every man who labored for the rebellion in the field, who murdered Union prisoners by cruelty and starvation, who conspired to bring about civil war in the loyal states, who invented dangerous compounds to burn steamboats and northern cities,, who contrived hellish schemes to introduce into northern cities the wasting pestilence of yellow fever, calls himself a Democrat. Every dishonest contractor who has been convicted of defrauding the government, every dishonest paymaster or disbursing officer who has been convicted of squandering the public money at the gaming table or in gold gambling operations, every officer in the army who was dismissed fur cowardice or disloyalty, calls himself a Democrat.“

— Oliver P. Morton American politician 1823 - 1877

Arraignment of the Democratic Party (June 1866)

Money, War, Game

„New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.“

— Michael Bloomberg American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City 1942

http://www.mikebloomberg.com/en/issues/job_creation/mayor_michael_bloombergs_inaugural_speech
New York City

People, World, Art, Business

„Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.“

— William Cobbett English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763 - 1835

Letter 2.
Advice to Young Men (1829)

Evil

„There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.“

— Henry Taylor English playwright and poet 1800 - 1886

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 25. p. 198

Business

„Research, he calls it. Research.“

— Robert Silverberg American speculative fiction writer and editor 1935

Pitkin sneered. “Junkie!”
Schwartz matched him sneer for sneer. “Economist!”
Short fiction, Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)

„Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.“

— Jeanette Winterson, book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987), p.73

Game

„The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.“

— Lewis H. Lapham American journalist 1935

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 3, The Golden Horde, p. 59

Business

„None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher."“

— Martin H. Fischer American university teacher (1879-1962) 1879 - 1962

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„The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.“

— H. G. Wells, book The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40

„There is no one doctrine of administration for business and another for affairs of state; administrative doctrine is universal. Principles and general rules which hold good for business hold good for the state too, and the reverse applies.“

— Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925

Henri Fayol (1917) "Préface à Administration industrielle et générale" in: Dunod and Pinat eds. (1918) l’éveil de l’esprit public. p. 6

Business, Universe

„Of all territorial settlements made at the end of the World War none has been so frequently criticized as that which we call the Polish Corridor.“

— Richard Hartshorne American Geographer 1899 - 1992

R. Hartshorne (1937) "The Polish Corridor". Journal of Geography Vol 36 (5), p. 161

War, World

„A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.“

— Rainer Maria Rilke, book Letters to a Young Poet

Letter One (17 February 1903)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

Art

„There’s no reason, with a good Republican governor that welcomes business into the state of Louisiana, that we can’t get the space command there with our present governor there, we can build the starship Enterprise into the state before he’ll let good business into the state.“

— Ralph Abraham (politician) American physician and congressman 1954

Ralph Abraham: We’ll Make Louisiana the ‘Leading Candidate’ for U.S. Space Command https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/03/16/ralph-abraham-well-make-louisiana-the-leading-candidate-for-u-s-space-command/ (16 March 2019)

Business

„It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now — my good Lord — look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.“

— Paul Newman American actor and film director 1925 - 2008

Quoted in "Saint Paul," interview with John Aldridge, The Guardian (2005-04-10)

Food, Business

„Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.“

Martin H. Fischer18

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