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TruthIsAll
11-12-2010, 12:30 PM
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
Author Unknown

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Charles W. Eliot

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
George Bernard Shaw

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter Drucker

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
Arthur Schopenhauer

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
P. G. Wodehouse

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Walter Bagehot

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Samuel Goldwyn

Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Mason Cooley

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers

Few great men would have got past personnel.
Paul Goodman


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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
Charles Buxton

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings

The price spoils the pleasure.
French Proverbs

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucker

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.
Milton Friedman

To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight.
William Shakespeare

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David Thoreau

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
German proverb

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Paul Getty

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Stewart Udall

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold S. Geneen

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?
Author Unknown

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
George Canning

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
Albert J. Nock

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
H. L. Mencken

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Author Unknown

Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Russian proverb

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson

Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Dhalgren
11-12-2010, 01:03 PM
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