Darkly Comical Business Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remainsand is immortal. Albert Pine

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done – nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.
John Lee Mahin

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images that have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up n o materials can produce no combinations. Sir J. Reynolds

The inlet of man’s mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas that he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community. Jeremiah W. Jenks

My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted or hung on a wall of his room. In effect, the sentence was: “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.” That is tragically true. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us don’t even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world. Pollack

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law’s hand upon the jewelry of our minds. Burritt

Those who give have all things; those who withhold have nothing. – Hindu Proverb

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts. George F. Tilton

Life’s greatest achievement is the continual re-making of yourself so that at last you know how to live. Winfred Rhodes
If the power to do hard work in not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. James A Garfield

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes