Opportunities Today :- January  2005 Issue

Wisdom and Humour

    

To taste the sweetness of life, you must have the power to forget the past.

To sell something, 
Tell a woman it's a bargain: 
Tell a man it's deductible.

There are three ingredients in the good life:
Learning , earning and yearning.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Ours is the age of substitutes:
Instead of language we have jargon;
Instead of principles, slogans;
And instead of genuine ideas,
Bright suggestions.

Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle in a candy.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

Don't be irreplaceable. 
If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made more money.

Even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A. or Ph.D. 
Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Always be smarter than the people who hired you.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. 

It is better to lose opportunity than capital.