Punctuality [...] is the soul of business.
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Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Hurst and Blackett, 1859, p. 31.Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
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The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.
Florence Earle Coates
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.
Samuel Beckett
Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul — religion and business. We are shocked because the religion is new, and contemptuous because the business, being subordinated to the religion instead of the other way round, is highly inefficient.
John Maynard Keynes
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