Counting House Quotes

#1. I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

Jack London

#2. It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

Thomas Malthus

#3. I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

Montague Burton

#5. A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

Jerome K. Jerome

#7. No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

Mark Zandi

#8. Never ask, never get," the dog replied. "Never try, never taste. Never taste, never enjoy.

Susan Wittig Albert

#9. Most people had high school - I had Breaking Bad.

RJ Mitte

#10. Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Samuel Johnson

#11. I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

Tommy Lee Jones

#12. Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

Claire Cook

#13. You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.

Chris Rock