QUOTES FROM THE BILTMORE INDUSTRIES

"People who are not up on a thing are usually down on it."

"Doing a thing uncommonly well often brings success"

Heinz

"Careful attention to one thing often proves superior to genius"

Cicero

I will study and make ready and maybe my chance will come."

Abraham Lincoln

"Every oak was once an acorn."

"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith."

Marcus  Aurelius

"LIFE WITHOUT INDUSTRY IS GUILT; INDUSTRY WITHOUT ART IS BRUTALITY."

"Flattery is nothing but "soft soap" and soft soap is 90 per cent lye."

"QUALITY IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT; IT IS ALWAYS THE RESULT OF INTELLIGENT EFFORT."

John Ruskin

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."

"It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it."

"I do the best I know how; and I intend to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said about me won't amount to anything."  Lincoln

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