The chief business of the American people is business.

—Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; KOOL-ij; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice president, under President Warren G. Harding, and...

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It takes a great man to be a good listener.

—Calvin Coolidge

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

—Calvin Coolidge

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

—Calvin Coolidge

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Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

—Calvin Coolidge

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

—Benjamin Franklin

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

—Ambrose Bierce

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

—Aldus Manutius

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth,… have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.

—William Wadsworth

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