If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?
Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.