马克吐温语录
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BANKER
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
BUSINESS
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Let your sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight--this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one--this is business.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Following the Equator
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right--as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
- Speech, 3/30/1901
ECONOMY
It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
MATHEMATICS
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
STATISTICS
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
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