The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A man without a smiling face should not open a shop. (Chinese)
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. (Roman)
Business before pleasure. (German)
Business is easy, profit is not. (Korean)
Business is one thing, friendship another. (Mexican)
Business makes the man, and tries him. (German)
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned. (Chinese)
Do business best when the wind’s in the west. (Roman)
Don’t draw another’s bow, don’t ride another’s horse, don’t mind another’s business. (Roman)
Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile. (Yiddish)
Done in by his own trade like a water merchant in the rain. (Madagascan)
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business. (German)
Everyone is ignorant in another person’s trade. (Irish)
Exchange is no robbery. (German)
Fuel is not sold in the forest, nor fish by the lake shore. (Chinese)
He loses his market who has nothing to sell. (Spanish)
He that deals in dirt has foul fingers. (Danish)
He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it. (French)
He who desires small gains will hardly be able to accomplish great transactions. (Chinese)
He who doth his own business defiles not his fingers. (Italian)
He who is of the craft can discourse about it. (Italian)
Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit. (Chinese)
If you deal in camels, make the doors high. (Afghani)
It is the seller, not the maker, who makes the goods expensive. (Yoruban)
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. (Jamaican)
Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers. (Arabian)
Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs. (Portuguese)
Let everyone mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended. (French)
Many buyers make higher prices. (German)
Men see better into other people’s business than into their own. (Roman)
Merchant today, beggar tomorrow. (German)
Mind your own business. (German)
Prudent pauses forward business. (German)
Punctuality is the soul of business. (English)
Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs. (Chinese)
Schoolmasters should stick to their books; farmers to their pigs. (Chinese)
Set thy expense according to thy trade. (Dutch)
Shoemaker, stick to your last. (Roman)
Take in laundry before you take in partners. (Spanish)
Tell everybody your business and the Devil will do it for you. (Italian)
The first mistake in public business, is the going into it. (Poor Richard)
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is hard. (Chinese)
What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business. (Spanish)
When everyone minds his own business the work gets done. (Danish)
When selling flour the winds blows, when selling salt the sky drizzles. (Korean)
Without business, debauchery. (French)
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