And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. – Rudyard Kipling
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. – Rudyard Kipling
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith