Aldus Manutius quotes

“Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.”
-- Aldus Manutius

Source : On a placard placed by Aldus on the door of his printing office,

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“It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”
-- Aldus Manutius

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“Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.”
-- Aldus Manutius

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“It is not work that kills; but no work and overwork.”
-- Aldus Manutius

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“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

“You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.”

“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”

“People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.”

“If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”

“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”