Sunday, July 19, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

January 1: Iolaire sinks.Image via Wikipedia

An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides. – John H. Patterson

Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more. – H. Bertram Lewis

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. – Raymond Hitchcock

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Walter Duranty

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man as unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions experience will develop your judgement to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51% of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision. – H.W. Andrews

Never trust a monkey.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Bubbock

Unless a business can stay in the black over the long term, averaging the bad years with good, it cannot sustain itself. A manager may have laudable social intentions of providing security for his employees, better products at lower prices for his customers. But if he cannot keep the business going in realizing these intentions he is defeated before he begins. – Paul Garrett

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other.George Eliot

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. – Owen D. Young






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