Samuel Johnson Quotes About Business

• People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, People, Needs

• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Business

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

• There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Sloth, Laziness

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.291

• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Magnificence, Advertising

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.159

• It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Men, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.33

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