The Suckers Have Deserted

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Gentlemen prefer bonds. – Andrew Mellon




Don’t confuse brains with a bull market. – Humphrey Neill



My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. _ Hernione Gingold



Wall Street is a thoroughfare that begins in a graveyard and ends in a river. – anonymous



Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again. – Will Rogers.



The sucker haven’t permanently deserted the stock market. They are merely waiting until the prices get too high again. – anonymous



In Wall Street the only thing that’s hard to explain is – next week. – Louis Rukeyser

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Judging a Cover by its Book

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Never judge a cover by its book. – Fran Lebowitz




Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it. – Will Rogers



There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. – Lily Tomlin



If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. – Turkish proverb



If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality. – Eddie Rickenbacker



Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers. – Titus Maccius Plautus



Nothing is lasting that is feigned. – English proverb

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Why is Money Flat?

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A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Fred Allen

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. – Will Rogers.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortune of others. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Deflagrable, adj. – Pertaining to a sudden bursting into flame, sudden vaporization, or fast burning. – Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more. – Tom Parkins

Money is flat and meant to be piled up. – Scottish proverb

Worthy Ideas are Dangerous

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There are three things which are real – God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third. – John F. Kennedy

You have to have a serious streak in you or you can’t see the funny side of the other fellow. – Will Rogers

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than can command the latter. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. – Emile Chartier

A idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. – Elbert Hubbard

Torture the Data!

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Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything. – Anonymous

Round numbers are always fake. – Samuel Johnson

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so. – Will Rogers

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money. – Anonymous

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover

When you can’t make both ends meet, make one potatoes. – American saying

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. – Errol Flynn

The reason most of us don’t live within our income is that we don’t consider that living. – Joe Moore

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We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us

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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. – Chinese proverb

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

We have met the enemy and he is us. – Walt Kelly

We are all richer than we think we are. – Michel de Montaigne

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work. – Will Rogers

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. – Mae West

I’m as pure as the driven slush. – Tallulah Bankhead

There are Some Things that Rats just Won’t Do

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – William Shakespeare

Bulls do not win bull fights.
People do.
People do not win people fights.
Lawyers do. - Norman R. Augustine

A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. – Lord Henry Peter

The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer. – Henry Kissinger

There are three reasons why lawyers are being used more and more in scientific experiments. First, every year there are more and more of them around. Second, lab assistants don’t get attached to them. And, third, there are some things that rats just won’t do. – anonymous

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

A peasant between two lawyers is a fish between two cats. – Spanish proverb

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost always be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. – Will Rogers

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Bargain: something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist

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If only God would give me a clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. – Woody Allen

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. – anonymous

Bargain: something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist. – Franklin P. Jones

Gentlemen, you are as fine a group of men as ever foreclosed a mortgage on a widow. I’m glad to be among you shylocks. – Will Rogers

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

You know the difference between a dead skunk and a dead banker on the road? There are skid marks by the skunk. – anonymous

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It Has No Commercial Future Whatsoever - - -

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I consider that the greatest mission of the motion picture is first to make people happy – to bring more joy and cheer and wholesome good will into this world of ours. And God knows we need it. – Thomas A. Edison

Young man, you should be grateful since, although my invention is not for sale, it would undoubtedly ruin you. It can be exploited for a certain time as a scientific curiosity, but, apart from that, it has no commercial future whatsoever. – Augustine Lumiere

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. – Will Rogers

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in the theater. – Roman Polanski

The camera is a little bit like the knife of a surgeon. – Jean Renoir

The eye hears, the ear sees. – Norman McLaren

In cinema, we must select everything for the camera according to the richness of its power to reveal. – Satyajit Ray

Kinodrama is an opium for the public. – Vertov