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1) To sell something, tell a
woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible. |
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2) There
are three ingredients in good life: learning, earning
and yearning. |
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3) An EXPERT is one who
knows more and more about less and less. |
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4) Most
of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the
directions. |
5) The secret if business is
to know something that nobody else knows. |
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6) To err
is human, but to really foul things up requires a
computer |
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7) Ours is the age of
substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead
of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas,
bright suggestions. |
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8)
Business without profit is not business any more than a
pickle is a candy. |
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9) If Columbus had had an
advisory committee, he would probably still be at the
dock. |
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10) Don't
be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be
promoted. |
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11) Benjamin Franklin may
have discovered electricity, but it was the man who
invented the meter who made the money. |
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12) Even
if your on the right track you'll get run over if you
just sit there. |
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13) The longer the title,
the less important the job. |
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14) A lot of fellows
nowadays have a B.A. or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't
have a J.O.B. |
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15) A budget tells us what
we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. |
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16) Always be smarter than
the people who hired you. |
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17) About the time we can
make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. |
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18) It is better to lose
opportunity than capital |
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19) Being in your own
business is working 80 hours a week so that you can
avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else. |
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20) Recession is when your
neighbor loses his job; depression is when you lose
yours. |
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21) Does he have 17 years of
experience or one year of experience 17 times? |
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22) I have noticed that the
people who are late are often so much jollier than the
people who have to wait for them. |
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23) The reason a lot of
people do not recognize opportunity is because it
usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard
work. |
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24) There may be luck in
getting a job, but there's no luck in keeping it. |
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25) The real problem is not
whether machines think but whether men do. |
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26) Delegating work works,
provided the one delegating works too. |
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27) Every man thinks God is
on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. |
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28) The right to be heard
does not automatically include the right to be taken
seriously. |
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29) Can anybody remember
when the times were not hard and money not scarce? |
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30) Assumption is the mother
of screw-up. |
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31) All organizations are at
least 50 percent waste waste people, waste effort, waste
space, and waste time. |
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32) Managers are people who
never put off till tomorrow that which they can get
someone else to do today. |
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33) Name the greatest of all
inventors: Accident. |
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34) Some people work just
hard enough not to get fired, and some companies pay
people just enough so they won't quit. |
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35) If a man mulls over a
decision, they say, “He's weighing the options”. If a
woman does it, they say, “She can't make up her mind”. |
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36) One of the greatest
failings of today's executive is his inability to do
what he's supposed to do. |
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37) There is an enormous
number of managers who have retired on the job. |
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38) Some folks seem to get
the idea that they're worth a lot of money because they
have it. |
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39) Pay peanuts and you get
monkeys. |
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