Proverbs:

A fair exchange brings no quarrel.
Danish
A good customer won’t change his shop, nor a good shop lose its customer once in three years.
Chinese
A man should sell his ware at the rates of the market.
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A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Chinese
A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.
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A stock once gotten wealth grows up of its own accord.
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A tradesman who gets not loseth.
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Able to buy, don’t so buy as to frighten the seller:
Able to sell, don’t so sell as to frighten the buyer.
Chinese
Ask but enough and you may lower the price as you like.
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Ask too much to get enough.
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At a great bargain make a pause.
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At market prices do your trade,
And mutual wrangling you’ll evade.
Chinese
At the first hand buy, at the third let lie.
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Bad ware is never cheap.
French
Bad ware must be cried up.
German
Be not too hasty to outbid another.
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Better sell for small profits than fail in business.
Chinese
Better sell than live poorly.
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Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
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Business before pleasure.
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Business is the salt of life.
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Business makes a man as well as tries him.
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Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
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Business neglected is business lost.
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Business sweetens pleasure, and labor sweetens rest.
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Business with a stranger is title enough.
Benjamin Disraeli
Buy and sell and live by the loss.
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Buy at a market, but sell at home.
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By entering all that’s sold or bought,
You’ll escape much anxious afterthought.
Chinese
Despatch is the soul of business.
Chesterfield
Do business, but be not a slave to it.
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Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
Franklin
Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off.
Italian
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
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Every man as his business lies.
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Every man doth his own business best.
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For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.
Italian
From small profits and many expenses,
Come a whole life of sad consequences.
Chinese
Fuel is not sold in a forest, nor fish on a lake.
Chinese
Having capital to open an eating-house, I dread not the most capacious stomachs.
Chinese
He has an eye to business.
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He has more business than English ovens at Christmas.
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He hath made a good progress in a business that hath thought well of it beforehand.
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He that doeth his own business hurteth not his hand.
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He that minds his business at home will not be accused of taking part in the fray.
Spanish
He that mindeth not his own business shall never be trusted with mine.
Spanish
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.
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He that will sell lawn must learn to fold it.
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He who does his own business does not soil his fingers.
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If a little does not go much cash will not come.
Chinese
If you would not be cheated ask the price at three shops.
Chinese
In business one must be perfectly affable.
Chinese
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it open.
Chinese
It is the very life of merchandise to buy cheap and sell dear.
Chinese
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Franklin
Let every man mind his own business and the cows will be well tended.
French
Liked gear is half bought.
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Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing or bad wares.
German
Mind no business but your own.
Dr. Johnson
Mind your own business.
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One cannot live by selling ware for words.
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Pity and compassion spoil business.
Meran the Hindu
That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
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To do a good trade wants nothing but resolution; to do a large one nothing but application.
Chinese
Use both such goods and money as suit your market.
Chinese
We can deal with ready money customers: those who want credit may spare their breath.
Chinese
What is every man’s business is no man’s business.
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When one cheats up to heaven in the price he asks, you come down to earth in the price you offer.
Chinese
Whenever you go about to trade, of showing your silver be afraid.
Chinese
Where much pushing must be made, there cannot be a lively trade.
Chinese
Who does not ready money clutch, of business has not much.
Chinese
Who drives not his business, his business drives.
German
Without business debauchery.
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Proverbs theme "Business" in English
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