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Lord Chesterfield Quotes about Business

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

"The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, February 5, 1750.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.266

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.149