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Famous Business Quotes
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To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
Say no, then negotiate.
@If at first you don't succeed, try, try again ... then give up. >
There's no use being a damn fool about it.     - W.C. Fields
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law:  Murphy was an optimist.
EIf you don't agree with me, it means you haven't been listening.
-Sam Markewich
A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.     -Nelson Bunker Hunt
If you can't convince them, confuse them.     -Harry S. Truman
FAn honest executive is one who shares the credit with the man who did
all the work.
EBefore you have an argument with your boss, take a good look at both #
sides - his side and the outside.
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
ERule of Failure: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence
that you tried.
HAmerica is the land of opportunity if you're a businessman in Japan.
 -Lawrence J. Peter
DNothing is quite as embarrassing as watching your boss do something #
you assured him couldn't be done.
BThe mark of a true M.B.A. is that he is often wrong but seldom in
doubt.     -Robert Buzzell
There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.
Law of Destiny: Glory may be fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
EA business is too big when it takes a week for gossip to go from one !
end of the office to the other.
CIf it ain't broke, don't fix it - unless you are a consultant.
-Winton G. Rossiter
DThe mechanics of running a business are really not very complicated H
Fwhen you get down to essentials. You have to make some stuff and sell I
Git to somebody for more than it cost you. That's about all there is to >
it, except for a few million details.     -John L. McCaffrey
My decision is maybe - and that's final.
FIf it's difficult we do it immediately. If it's impossible it takes a /
little longer.  Miracles by appointment only.
Old salesmen never die - they just get out of commission.
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.     -John F. Kennedy
@Business: The art of extracting money from another man's pocket 3
without resorting to violence.     -Max Amsterdam
EThe closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a /
job application form.     -Stanley J. Randall
GThe trouble with mixing business and pleasure is that pleasure usually
comes out on top.
EBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.
-Herbert Hoover
FNever tell a lie ... unless lying is one of your strong points."
-George Washington Plunkett
Marketing is simply sales with a college education.     -John Freund
FA good business manager hires optimists as salesmen and pessimists to
run the credit department.
=No business opportunity is ever lost. If you fumble it, your
competitor will find it.
DDoing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the G
Edark. You know what you're doing, but nobody else does.     -Stewart
Britt
EOctober. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate G
Ein stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, B
May, March, June, December, August and February.     -Mark Twain
Business is like an automobile. It won't run itself, except downhill.
It's not whether you win or lose - it's how you place the blame.
CRule of Success: Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you
when things go wrong.
If people listened to themselves more often, they would talk less.
Some executives call passing the buck delegating authority.
The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
DIf you pick up a starving dog, and make him prosperous, he will not J
Hbite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
CA successful executive in business is one who can delegate all the F
responsibility, shift all the blame, and appropriate all the credit.
EWhen I first started working I used to dream of the day when I might ,
be earning the salary I'm starving on now.
@Anyone who thinks the customer isn't important should try doing *
without him for a period of ninety days.
GThe typical salesman is a man with a smile on his face, a shine on his
shoes, and a lousy territory.
Happiness is a positive cash flow.     -Fred Adler
CThe best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without
Things that can be counted on:!
Marketing..............Says yes
Finance................Says no)
Legal..................Has to review it%
Personnel..............Is concerned#
Planning...............Is frantic(
Engineering............Is above it all/
Manufacturing..........Wants more floor space2
Top Management.........Wants someone responsible
DAn efficient businessman who found a machine that would do half his
work, bought two.
GA nickel goes a long way now. You can carry it around for days without
finding a thing it will buy.
@There are some men who, in a fifty-fifty proposition, insist on 0
getting the hyphen too.     -Lawrence J. Peter
EIf you want something done, give it to a busy man ... and he'll have
his secretary do it.
HThere is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
 -Edmund Wilson
DAmong the chief worries of today's business executives is the large -
number of unemployed still on the payrolls.
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
AIt is especially hard to work for money you've already spent for
something you didn't need.
GCommittee work is like a soft chair - easy to get into but hard to get
out of.
BIf all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it would
probably be a good thing.
EChoose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your
life.     -Confucius
GI'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position.     -Mark Twain
BIdealism increases in direct proportion to one's distanc from the
problem.     -John Galsworthy
@I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the B
formula for failure: try to please everybody.     -Herbert Swope
There are three kinds of lies:  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
EIf hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have C
kept it all to themselves.     -Lane Kirkland,  AFL-CIO President
EThe happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit E
Cof a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.     -Josh
Billings
DExperience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.     -Oscar
Wilde
EMaier's Law: If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be
disposed of.
Buy low, sell high, collect early, and pay late.     -Dick Levin
GEven if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there.     -Will Rogers
Management is the art of getting other people to do all the work.
@I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the (
letters are worn off.     -Andy Rooney
DWhen they say a man is a 'born executive' they mean his father owns
the business.