Darkly Comical Business Quotes

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task at hand… If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure. Robert Hillyer

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. La Rochefoucauld

Four things come not back – the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Arabian Proverb

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little. Cervantes

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. Henry Ford

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover

If things are not going well with you, begin your efforts at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
Roger Babson

Most business men generally are so busy coping with the immediate and piecemeal matters that there is a lamentable tendency to let the “long run” or future take care of itself. We often are so busy “putting out fires,” so to speak, that we find it difficult to do the planning that would prevent those fires from occurring in the first place. As a prominent educator has expressed it, Americans generally “spend so much time on things that are urgent that we have none left to spend on those that are important.
Gustav Metzman

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes