Business
In 1472 the Republic founded the Monte dei Paschi, a bank that is still active today and is the oldest surviving bank in the world.
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.”
—Robert Towne (b. 1936)
“The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)