“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) American Vice President and politician
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You
Song lyrics, Southern Voice (2009)
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) American Vice President and politician
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
“When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 115
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) British soldier and statesman
Statement in conversation with John Croker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilson_Croker and Croker's wife (4 September 1852), as quoted in The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.Dm F.R.S, Secretary of the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830 (1884), edited by Louis J. Jennings, Vol.III, p. 276.
“Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.”
Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster
As quoted in Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009) by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206 http://books.google.bg/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=bg
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) British journalist, businessman, and essayist
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.”
Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"All You Have to Be is You" (11 December 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbyUCzBJVe4