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

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Business

Author

Christian Nestell Bovee

Source

Institutions and Summaries of Thought

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United States

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Citation

Bovee, Chrisitan Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. Vol. 1, New York: Sheldon and Company/Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1862.

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It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

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Time
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The customer is always right.

Marshall Field

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Marshall Field
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Boston Sunday Herald
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Language
English
Time
1905 1900s 20th century
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Field, Marshall. "America's Biggest Taxpayer Is a Merchant Prince of Chicago: Leads Country's Big Taxpayers." The Sunday Herald, 3 Sept. 1905, Women's section, p. 10, col. 2.

Another quote from 1862

The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev
Source
Fathers and Sons
Medium
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Language
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Time
1862 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.