Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,
The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,
The Douglas in red herrings.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 2
| text = They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
| author = Hazlitt
| work = Table Talks.
| place = Essay XXVII.
| seealso = (See also Coke)
Those that are above business.
Mathew Henry—Commentaries. Matthew XX.
Ill ware is never cheap.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Pleasing ware is half sold.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
Hesiod—Works and Days.
| seealso = (See also Gat)
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Mr. Howel Walsh, in a corporation case tried at the Tralee assizes, observed that a corporation cannot blush. It was a body, it was true; had certainly a head—a new one every year—an annual acquisition of intelligence in every new lord mayor. Arms he supposed it had, and very long ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of course, when it made such long strides. A throat to swallow the rights of the community, and a stomach to digest them. But who ever yet discovered, in the anatomy of any corporation, either bowels or a heart?
Hone. In his Table-Book.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Coke)
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Quod medicorum est
Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.
Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen.
Horace—Epistles. II. 1. 115.
Sed tamen amoto quseramus seria ludo.
Setting raillery aside, let us attend to serious matters.
Horace—Satires. I. 1. 27.
| note =
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Aliena negotia euro,
Excussus propriis.
I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 19.
Whose merchants are princes.
Isaiah. XXIII. 8.
| note =
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village.
The sign brings customers.
La Fontaine—Fables. The Fortune Tellers.
| place = Bk. VII. Fable 15.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Leb—Crowds.
| place = Bk. II. Ch.V.
| note =
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Pt. II. Ch.V.
Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Pt. II.
Ch.vm.
A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
Consilia callida et audacia prima specie laeta,
tractatu dura, eventu tristia sunt.
Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first
view nattering, in execution difficult, and in
the issue disastrous.
Livy—Annales. XXXV. 32.
There is no better ballast for keeping the
mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all
risk of crankiness, than business.
| author = Lowell
| work = Among My Books. New England
Two Centuries Ago.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Macaulay—Essay on Hattam's Constit. Hist.
Quoted as an old maxim.
| seealso = (See also Walton)
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>As touching corporations, that they were invisible, immortal and that they had no soul,
therefor no supcena lieth against them, because
they have no conscience or soul.
Sir Roger Manwood, Chief Baron of the
Exchequer. (1592) See Dictionary of National Biography.
| seealso = (See also Coke)
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>You silly old fool, you don't even know the
alphabet of your own silly old business.
Attributed to Judge Maule.
| seealso = (See also Chesterfield)
| topic =
| page = 86
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>A blind bargain.
Merrie Tales of the Madmen of Gottam . (1630)
No. 13.
Curse on the man who business first designed.
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!
Oldham—Complaining of Absence. 11.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare,
Navem et mulierem, hsec duo compare to. Nam nulla? magis res duse plus negotii Habent, forte si occeperis exomare. Neque unquam satis hse duse res ornantur, Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est. Who wishes to give himself an abundance ol business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment, enough for them. Plautus—Pcenulys. I. 2. 1
