Too Many Crooks Spoil the Percentage

Image by The Library of Congress via FlickrPromoters are just guys with two pieces of bread looking for a piece of cheese. – Evel Knievel




Too many crooks spoil the percentage. – H. Chandler



Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas A Edison



It comes in three sizes. Large, Giant and Super. I gave you the smaller size – Large. – anonymous



Every crowd has a silver lining. – Phineas Taylor Barnum



A promoter will provide the ocean if you will provide the ships. - anonymous

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You're Stuck with a Product - Yourself

Image by Dan Skrobak via FlickrA well-informed employee is the best sales person a company can have. – E.J. Thomas




It’s a hectic crazy life. You’re not like a shoe salesman, who can get rid of his wares. You’re stuck with a product - yourself. – Nancy Sinatra



Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. – Lord Chesterfield



In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



I was successful because you believed in me. – Ulysses S. Grant



In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope. – Charles Revson

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When a Cabbage Could Sell Itself just by being a Cabbage!

Image by Brantford Selections via FlickrI detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that some day I shall die, which is not so. – Stephen Butler-Leacock




When buyers don’t fall for prices, prices must fall for buyers. – anonymous



I remember well the time when a cabbage could sell itself just by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free any more to sell itself or give itself away. – Jean Giraudoux



When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality. – Al Capone



Look out for the fellow who lets you do all the talking. – Frank McKinney Hubbard



I have great faith in the people; as for their wisdom – well, Coca-Cola still outsells champagne. – Adlai Stevenson

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What's a Heavy Curse in a Fool's Pocket?

Image by bunchofpants via FlickrNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. – Jonathon Swift


What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. This same tendency, operating with increasing force, is observable in our civilization today, showing itself in every progressive community, and with greater intensity the more progressive the community. – Henry George


Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. – Mohandas ghandhi


Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies;
Learn this, ye men of wealth – a heavy purse
In a fool’s pocket is a heavy curse.


To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art. – Confucius

Buy cheap, sell dear. – Thomas Lodge

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Going to Hell in Embroidrery

Image by Urban Combing (Ultrastar175g) via FlickrWatch lest prosperity destroy generosity. – Henry Ward Beecher




Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. – Proverb



A fortune is usually the greatest of misfortunes to children. It takes the muscles out of the limbs, the brain out of the head, and virtue out of the heart. – Henry Ward Beecher



It is poor encouragement to toil through life to amass a fortune to ruin your children. In nine cases out of ten, a large fortune is the greatest curse which could be bequeathed to the young and inexperienced. – Jean de la Bruyere



To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it more difficult, but to spend it wisely most difficult of all. – Edward Parsons Day



Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetite. – Thomas Fuller

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