BUSINESS in Classic Quotes

1  Our business interests became intermingled.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

2  All who lived in the little town were in one way or another connected with the salt business.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

3  I have found that strict business methods go a long way in securing the interest of rich people.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

4  As it was not my place of business I felt it to be the proper thing to show the money to the proprietor.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

5  But I determined to learn the business of waiting, and did so within a few weeks and was restored to my former position.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

6  Mr. Scott, my secretary, came with me to New York, in order that I might clear up the last bit of business before I left.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.

7  Next to a company of business men, I prefer to speak to an audience of Southern people, of either race, together or taken separately.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

8  He seemed as glad as I was, but he coolly explained to me that, as it was his place of business, he had a right to keep the money, and he proceeded to do so.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

9  It has been my constant aim at Tuskegee to carry out, in our financial and other operations, such business methods as would be approved of by any New York banking house.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

10  I did not appreciate to any degree, however, the impression which my address seemed to have made, until the next morning, when I went into the business part of the city.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

11  He has always shown a degree of unselfishness and an amount of business tact, coupled with a clear judgment, that has kept the school in good condition no matter how long I have been absent from it.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

12  As to the kind of audience that I like best to talk to, I would put at the top of the list an organization of strong, wide-awake, business men, such, for example, as is found in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Buffalo.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

13  Jessup, the treasurer of the Slater Fund, I refer to because I know of no man of wealth and large and complicated business responsibilities who gives not only money but his time and thought to the subject of the proper method of elevating the Negro to the extent that is true of Mr. Jessup.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

14  In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

15  And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

16  We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

17  The best time to get hold of an organization of business men is after a good dinner, although I think that one of the worst instruments of torture that was ever invented is the custom which makes it necessary for a speaker to sit through a fourteen-course dinner, every minute of the time feeling sure that his speech is going to prove a dismal failure and disappointment.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.