"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth." ― John Greenleaf Whittier Topic(s): Business More From John Greenleaf Whittier "Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew." "Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young." "Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all." More In Business "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."― Seamus Heaney "For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."― Thomas Mann "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."― Ambrose Bierce