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Wisdom about business.
What people have learned about business the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
(Such an one) cannot be treated familiarly or distantly; he is beyond all consideration of profit or injury; of nobility or meanness:—he is the noblest man under heaven.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Therefore when one is making the Tao his business, those who are also pursuing it, agree with him in it, and those who are making the manifestation of its course their object agree with him in that; while even those who are failing in both these things agree with him where they fail.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
How do I know that it is so? By these facts:—In the kingdom the multiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the people; the more implements to add to their profit that the people have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more acts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange contrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the…