Darkly Comical Business Quotes

External things and opportunities so abound in American life that, instead of nurturing the true source of happiness, we tend to make it a direct aim. So we end in looking for happiness in possession of the external—in money, a good time, somebody to lean on, and so on. We are impatient, hurried and fretful because we do not find happiness where we look for it. - John Dewey

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities. – Macaulay

There is work tat is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. – Gelett Burgess

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. – Arabian Proverb

You have a shilling. I have a shilling. We swap. You have my shilling and I have yours. We are no better off. But suppose you have an idea and I have an idea. We swap. Now you have two ideas and I have two ideas. We have increased our stock of ideas 100%. – A.S. Gregg

If you cannot make money on one dollar—if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won’t know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars. – E.S. Kinnear

Sometimes the best gain is to lose. – Herbert

During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple: It is because I did everything promptly. – Sir Richard Tangye

Sorrow’s best antidote is employment. – Young

The saying that knowledge is power is not quite true. Used knowledge is power, and more than power. It is money, and service, and better living for our fellowmen, and a hundred other good things. But mere knowledge, left unused, has not power in it.
– Dr. Edward E. Free