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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
  ... business.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Before then, I had written lots of sweet promises, but my wife happily observed that this time I meant business.


2.
  ... business.  BB Working With Others, p.97
It may mean the loss of many nights' sleep, great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to your business.


3.
  ... business.  BB To Wives, p.109
He is positive he can handle his liquor, that it does him no harm, that drinking is necessary in his business.


4.
  ... business.  BB To Employers, p.136
Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.


5.
  ... business.  BB To Employers, p.139
Of an evening, you can go on a mild bender, get up in the morning, shake your head and go to business.


6.
  ... business.  BB To Employers, p.141
He wants to quit drinking and you want to help him, even if it be only a matter of good business.


7.
  ... business.  BB To Employers, p.143
We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.


8.
  ... business.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
He trembled as he went about, for this might mean ruin, particularly to a person in his line of business.


9.
  ... business.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
I'm ready to do business.


10.
  ... business.  BB A Vision For You, p.161
No one is too discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially -- if he means business.


11.
  ... business.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business.


12.
  ... business.'  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
You can become a lay therapist, and more successful than anybody in the business.'


13.
  ... business.'  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
'Give me the business.'


14.
  ... business.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told: "How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.


15.
  ... business?  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Who is more unpopular than the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?


16.
  ... business.  12&12 Tradition Six (Long), p.190
An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business.


17.
  ... business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, ...  BB Into Action, p.76
As we look over the list of business acquaintances and friends we have hurt, we may feel diffident about going to some of them on a spiritual basis.


18.
  ... business affairs?  12&12 Tradition Five, pp.153-154
Suppose I'd suggested that I'd take a hand in his domestic and business affairs?


19.
  Business and financial leaders were my heroes.  BB Bill's Story, p.2
Business and financial leaders were my heroes.


20.
  ... business and for a time all was ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
"In this frame of mind, I went about my business and for a time all was well.


21.
  ... business and had retired, he would not ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business and had retired, he would not touch another drop.


22.
  ... business, and none came.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
We prayed for promotions at business, and none came.


23.
  ... business and professional experience to their service ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.


24.
  Business and professional men have regained their ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
Business and professional men have regained their standing.


25.
  ... business as well as law.  BB Bill's Story, p.2
I studied economics and business as well as law.


26.
  ... business associates.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.


27.
  ... business associates didn't suffer, because we were ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Our business associates didn't suffer, because we were usually on the job.


28.
  ... business associates remained skeptical for a year ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a half, during which I found little work.


29.
  ... business associates, we find that we still ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Now that we're in A.A. and sober, and winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find that we still need to exercise special vigilance.


30.
  ... business, but saw that he would get ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He was ambitious to succeed in business, but saw that he would get nowhere if he drank at all.


31.
  ... business came off well, I was pleased ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
My business came off well, I was pleased and knew my partners would be too.


32.
  ... business career.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


33.
  ... business community unknown thousands of dollars, for ...  BB To Employers, p.137
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.


34.
  ... business deal which was to be settled ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
I have had many men who had, for example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled on a certain date, favorably to them.


35.
  ... business enthusiastically.  BB Working With Others, p.102
If it is a happy occasion, try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.


36.
  ... business, even though we had been surrounded ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
For alcoholism had been a lonely business, even though we had been surrounded by people who loved us.


37.
  ... business fabric is shot through with a ...  BB To Employers, p.137
We think the business fabric is shot through with a situation which might be helped by better understanding all around.


38.
  Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide -- these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him.


39.
  ... business fairly well.  BB To Wives, p.109
Perhaps he can still tend to business fairly well.


40.
  ... business, give him a chance to try ...  BB To Wives, p.114
If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or dangerous.


41.
  ... business he had lost through drinking.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.


42.
  ... business hours.  BB To Employers, p.146
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.


43.
  ... business hours, drinking only at parties, switching ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums -- we could increase the list ad infinitum.


44.
  ... business, I thought, is totally unscientific.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
This A.A. business, I thought, is totally unscientific.


45.
  ... business, in the well-being of employees.  BB To Employers, p.149
There is a real interest, both humanitarian and business, in the well-being of employees.


46.
  ... business is as good as can be ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
My home life is ideal and my business is as good as can be expected in these uncertain times.


47.
  ... business is to be successful, he cannot ...  BB How It Works, p.64
If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values.


48.
  ... business life, at least from the alcoholic ...  BB To Employers, p.149
We, who have collectively seen a great deal of business life, at least from the alcoholic angle, had to smile at this gentleman's sincere opinion.


49.
  ... business man had ability, good sense, and ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
A certain American business man had ability, good sense, and high character.


50.
  ... business man, it is Fred.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
If ever there was a successful business man, it is Fred.


51.
  ... business man, want to know the necessities ...  BB To Employers, p.140
You, as a business man, want to know the necessities before considering the result.


52.
  ... business man who lolls in the Florida ...  BB How It Works, p.61
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.


53.
  ... business may call him.  BB To Employers, p.147
If he is conscientiously following the program of recovery he can go anywhere your business may call him.


54.
  ... business may suffer somewhat.  BB To Wives, p.109
His business may suffer somewhat.


55.
  ... business meeting and blow his top over ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


56.
  ... business meetings.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
Their treasurer, strictly accountable, takes money from the hat that is passed, banks it, pays the rent and other bills, and makes a regular report at business meetings.


57.
  ... business men everywhere.  BB To Employers, p.136
His present views ought to prove exceptionally useful to business men everywhere.


58.
  ... business, might finance any enterprise whatever in ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
The A.A. groups, many thought, could go into business, might finance any enterprise whatever in the total field of alcoholism.


59.
  ... business occasion, go and attend to your ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
If it is a happy occasion, try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.


60.
  ... business of being self-satisfied.  12&12 Step Seven, pp.71-72
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.


61.
  ... business of drinking with much greater earnestness ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
There I took up the business of drinking with much greater earnestness than I had previously shown.


62.
  ... business of living alone with our conflicts, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We knew we would have to quit the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being.


63.
  ... business of resentment is infinitely grave.  BB How It Works, p.66
But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.


64.
  ... business of winning fame, money, and what ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership.


65.
  ... business, only to bring still more suffering ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
Why, he argued, should he lose the remainder of his business, only to bring still more suffering to his family by foolishly admitting his plight to people from whom he made his livelihood?


66.
  ... business opportunity.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Then I got a promising business opportunity.


67.
  ... business or both, then the following suggestions ...  BB To Employers, p.140
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions may be helpful.


68.
  ... business, or community we attract widespread affection ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.


69.
  ... business or employment record, almost any alcoholic ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Surveying his business or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability?


70.
  ... business, or he may be so enthralled ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
He may either plunge into a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.


71.
  ... business, or personal reason for going to ...  BB Working With Others, p.101
Therefore, ask yourself on each occasion, "Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?


72.
  ... business or professional folk, we could not ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event.


73.
  ... business or professional folk, we could not ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event."


74.
  ... business or professional success ahead of spiritual ...  BB The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.


75.
  ... business rival, giving him no receipt for ...  BB Into Action, p.80
While drinking, he accepted a sum of money from a bitterly-hated business rival, giving him no receipt for it.


76.
  ... business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.


77.
  ... business standpoint, his trip came off badly.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
From a business standpoint, his trip came off badly.


78.
  ... business tales or criticize his associates?  BB To Employers, p.145
Can he talk frankly with you so long as he does not bear business tales or criticize his associates?


79.
  ... business, there is no doubt you should ...  BB To Employers, p.147
If you are sure he doesn't mean business, there is no doubt you should discharge him.


80.
  ... business there will be rivalries and, arising ...  BB To Employers, p.145
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.


81.
  ... business, these terrible fears often continued to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
Even when we were well reestablished in our business, these terrible fears often continued to haunt us.


82.
  ... business; too many busybody cooks spoil the ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.


83.
  ... business venture which had collapsed, leaving him ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.


84.
  ... business!' we said.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
'Damn this faith business!' we said.


85.
  ... business which takes no regular inventory usually ...  BB How It Works, p.64
A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke.


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