BUSINESSLIKE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Businesslike

"Businesslike" Quotes from Famous Books

... at its command in the past was not perfect it has commonly been able to send a squadron to sea more rapidly than any other power in Europe. Much depends on the arrangement of the stores as well as the disposition of the men. The introduction at the end of the 18th century of the businesslike practice of keeping the fittings of each ship together by themselves, did much to facilitate the rapid mobilization of a portion of the British fleet in 1790 which impressed all Europe. The prompt manning of a ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... rare pleasure, I assure you, Miss Corblay, for a man in my line of work to receive such a prompt, courteous and businesslike answer from a woman. You have my word that anything you tell me ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... this work needs, of course, a more businesslike system of planning and greater foresight than we ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... long run could alone console me, I cannot achieve. The rehearsals are too few, and everything is done in too businesslike a manner. Although the pieces from "Lohengrin" were favourably received, I am sorry that I have given them. My annoyance at being compelled to produce such trifling specimens of my work and to have my whole being judged thereby is too great. I also hate like poison to ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... a shock upon any of his friends if he could but have been seen by them, or any credible man amongst them, on a certain afternoon in the April of 1880. He had locked himself in his own room, and, sitting there in a big chair before a businesslike desk, with a great number of docketed papers in pigeon-holes, and a disordered mass of papers strewn before him, the determined Mr. Bommaney, the decided Mr. Bommaney, the Mr. Bommaney whom no ...

— Young Mr. Barter's Repentance - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray

More quotes...