Famous Quotes | In business be as able as you...
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, undated, Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son and Others, p. 305, London, Dent (1796). Written to his godson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl (1755-1815), a distant relative of Chesterfield’s, who eventually became his heir and successor; the letter included instructions that it be delivered to the godson after Chesterfield’s death.
Categories: Business And Commerce, Cunning, Man Of Letters, Statesman
