Darkly Comical Business Quotes

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

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

A quiet conscience makes one so serene. – Byron

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish. – Sir Thomas Buxton

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

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

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work—but the last half. He helps those who help themselves. – Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth or old age. – Victor Hugo

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

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. – Sydney Smith