“The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49
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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
Pericles commenting the participation of Athenian citizens in politics, as quoted in Models of Democracy (2006) by David Held, Stanford University Press, p. 14. Book II, chapter 40.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 130.
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
“Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.”
Statement of 1896, as quoted in Prodigal Genius : The Life of Nikola Tesla (2007) by James J. O'Neill
December 30, 1913 http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1913/12/30/page/7/article/utilities-board-complete-today in Chicago Daily Tribune and other newspapers.
“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”
The Note Book (1927).
Letter to John Bright (1860) on the negotiations for his free trade treaty with France, quoted in W. E. Williams, The Rise of Gladstone to the Leadership of the Liberal Party, 1859 to 1868 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934), p. 20.
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