The Pimps Have Taken Over the World

Image by atomicjeep via FlickrWar is good business. Invest your sons. – James A. Michener



All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments or probabilities, and not on certainties. – Charles W. Eliot



If you destroy a free market you create a black market. If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. – Sir Winston Churchill



Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don’t do anything, they don’t make anything – they just stand there and take their cut. – Jean Giraudoux



If profits are evil, loses must be ten time worse. – Bertram Troy



If one has not made a reasonable profit, one has made a mistake. – Li Xiannian



It is well know what a middle-man is: he is the man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. – Benjamin Disraeli

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There's Money to be Made in the Wreckage of Civilization

Image via WikipediaIt is easy to escape from business, if you will only despise the rewards of business. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca




The greatest part of the business of the world is the effect of not thinking. – Lord Halifax



The lawyer and the doctor and other professional men have often a touch of civilization. The banker and the merchant seldom. – Jim Tully



He that hath little business shall become wise. – Ecclesiasticus



Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. – B.C. Forbes



What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of civilization as from the upbuilding of one. – Margaret Mitchell



There’s one sure way to make a businessman worry. Tell him not to. – Leopold Fechtner

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Moralizing on the Condition of the Handkerchief Business

Image by x-ray delta one via FlickrSo long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer. – Lorna May Harris




A small business man is any businessman who cannot afford to have a full-time representative in Washington D.C. – anonymous



Business will be better or worse. – Calvin Coolidge



American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism. – Herbert Hoover



Breakfast first, business next. – William Makepeace Thackeray



He would not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief business. – Cyril Connolly



Thank heaven for the military industrial complex. Its ultimate aim is peace in our time. – Barry Goldwater

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Known by the Company He Merges

Image via WikipediaBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Thomas Woodrow Wilson



People of the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some diversion to raise prices. – Adam Smith



My father always told me that businessmen were sons of bitches. – John F. Kennedy



Running a business is no trouble at all as long as it is not yours. – anonymous



It is not by any means certain that a man’s business is the most important thing he has to do. – Robert Louis Stevenson



My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. – Oscar Wilde



A man is known by the company he merges. – Leonard Louis Levenson

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Filling the Market with Ready Consumers?

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Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation. – Peter F. Drucker



The aim of legitimate busiess is service, for profit, at a risk. – Benjamin Leeming



Prosperity is what business creates for politicians to take the credit. – anonymous



Running a business these days is like Dudley Moore dancing with Raquel Welch. The overhead is fantastic! – anonymous



Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is a war. – Christian Nestell Bovee



After all, what the worker does is buy back from those who finance him, the goods that he himself produces. Pay him a wage that enables him to buy, and you fill your market with ready consumers. – James J. davis



Business is a public trust and must adhere to national standards in the conduct of its affairs. – Harry S Truman

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Neither a Soul to Lose nor a Body to Kick

Image by Will Lion via FlickrThe cosmetics industry is the nastiest business in the world. – Elizabeth Arden




Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping. – Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare



You never expected justice from a company, did you? The have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick. – Sydney Smith



At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its abiltiy to succeed in spite of itself runs out. – Richard H. Brien



Forgive us for frantic buying and selling, for advertising the unnecessary and coveting the extravagant, and calling it good business when it is not good for you. – United Presbyterian Church



If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state. – P.D. Reed



Business is other people’s money. – Delphine de Griardin

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Monopoly: Business at the End of its Journey

Image via WikipediaWhat we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. – Samuel Goldwyn




Hitch your wagon to a star; keep your nose to the grindstone; put your shoulder to the wheel; keep an ear to the ground; and watch the handwriting on the wall. – Herbert V. Prochnow



Business only contributes fully to society if it is efficient, successful, profitable and socially responsible. – Lord Sieff



Expenditures rise to meet income. – C. Northcote Parkinson



Monopoly is business at the end of its journey. – Henry Demarest Lloyd



Most of the trouble with most people in America who become successful is that they can really and truly get by on bullshit alone. They can survive on it. – Sammy Davis Jr.



The business of everybody is the business of nobody. – Thomas MaCaulay

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More Exciting than Any Game

Image by meltedplastic via FlickrBoldness in business is the first, second, and third thing. – Edmund Fuller



To be successful in business, be daring, be first, be different. – William Marchant



One of the rarest phenomena is a really pessimistic businessman. – Miriam Beard



The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. – Edgar A. Shoaff



Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook



The submachine gun is the greatest aid to bigger and better business the criminal has discovered in this generation. – Collier’s Magazine



Never refuse a good offer. – Proverb

Grace from Gadgets?

Image by jmatthew3 via FlickrAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke




Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. – Joseph Wood Krutch



A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. – Max Lerner



It is a distinction between science and technology that technology must always be useful, whereas science need not be. – Sir Patrick Linstead



The characteristic of the exploding technological society is that changes sooner or later must take place in a fraction of the time necessary even to assess the situation. – John Wilkinson



One consequence of postwar technology has been the acceleration of change in our society, so that we seem to produce a new generation about every five years. – Ross MacDonald



We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – John Boynton Priestly

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Technology or Perish?

Image by PLANETART via FlickrThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. – Blaise Pascal




Be good and you will be lonesome. – Mark Twain



Technology or perish. – John R Pierce



There are three ways of courting ruin – women, gambling and calling in technicians.



The genius of modern technology lies in making things to last fifty years and making them obsolete in three. – anonymous



Technology – the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch



Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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The Evolution of Ethics

Image via WikipediaThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. – Aldous Leonard Huxley




Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde



Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain



The best way to keep your word is not to give it. – Napolean Bonaparte



Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. – Friedrich Hebbel



The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. – Albert Schweitzer



The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Oscar Wilde

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The Only Certainty - Oblivion

Image via WikipediaTo be somebody you must last. – Ruth Gordon




Some men’s reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. – Archbishop Richard Whateley



The most serviceable of all assets is reputation – it works for you automatically – 24 hours a day. Unlike money, reputation cannot be bequeathed. It is always personal. It must be acquired. Brains alone, however brilliant, cannot win it. – Otto Kahn



These are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



One may be better than his reputation, but never better than his principles. – Nicholas Valentin de Latena



A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. – Henry Ward Beecher



Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. – Mark Twain

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Todays Philosophy: Better to be Notorious than Obscure

Image via WikipediaYour reputation is what others are not thinking about you. – Tom Masson




Reptutation is a bubble which bursts when a man tries to blow it up for himself. – Emma Carleton



It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. – James K. Feibleman


Whatever reputation I have is due to the fact that I never open my mouth unless I have something to say. – George Bernard Shaw


A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds. – Rhodesian Proverb


Money is like the reputation for ability – more easily made than kept. – Samuel Butler


Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nothing for Something

Image by mrtruffle via FlickrThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – St. Thomas Aquinas




When someone gets something for nothing. Someone else gets nothing for something. – anonymous



Someone has suggested that America’s greatest gifts to civilization are three: cornflakes, Kleenex, and credit. – Louis T. Benezet



When a merchant speaks of sheep he means the hide. – Swiss Proverb



No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin



Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – Abraham Lincoln



Piracy, n: commerce without its folly-swaddles – just as God made it. – Ambrose Bierce

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secure an independent income and then practice virtue?

Image via WikipediaHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller




A man isn’t a man until he has to meet a payroll. – Ivan Shaffer



He found it inconvenient to be poor. – William Cowper



The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. – Albert Einstein



Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. – English Proverb



First secure an independent income and then practice virtue. – Greek Proverb

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Corporations are less amenable to Disgrace and Punishment

Image by This Year's Love via FlickrA Corporation cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. – Sir Edward Coke




The ancient Hebrews had a goat on which all the sins were placed, so the holding company isn’t new. – anonymous



Free enterprise ended in the United States a good many years ago. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture, avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and drive out the small entrepreneur. In their conglomerate forms, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the legitimacy of the State. – Gore Vidal

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and we are less amenable to disgrace and punishment. – William Hazlitt

The fact that 25% of businesses fail in the first year and less than 20% are still in business 10 years later is because of lack of proper planning. – Jesse Werner

Never have partners. – Howard Hughes’s Father

Chop you own wood and it will warm you twice. - Proverb

A Corporation has No Conscience

Image by The Rocketeer via FlickrDo not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. – James J. Ling




Labor is the capital of our working men. – Grover Cleveland



A corporation cannot blush. – Howell Walsh



It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation without a conscience. – Henry David Throeau



The modern corporation is a political institution; its purpose is the creation of legitimate power in the industrial sphere. – Peter F. Drucker



Concentration of economic power in all-embracing corporations represents a kind of private government which is a power unto itself – a regimentation of other people’s money and other people’s lives. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters. – Grover Cleveland

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The Curse of the Drinking Class

Image by xjyxjy via FlickrLuck is what you have left over after you give 100%. – Langston Coleman




When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose? – Donal Robert Perry Marquis



Work is the curse of the drinking class. – Oscar Wilde



My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work. – Abraham Lincoln



Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. – C. Northcote Parkinson



Times have changed. Forty years ago people worked 12 hours a day, and it was called economic slavery. Now they work 14 hours a day and it’s called moonlighting. – Robert Orben



Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

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Working Hard to Make Enough You Don't Have Work? And You Get Old Doing It!

Image by Xavier Fargas via FlickrConscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbor. – Saint Augustine




So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. – anonymous



Next to Death, the most infallible remedy for a guilty conscience is success. – Edmund Fuller.



Work is much more fun than fun. – Noel Coward



If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. – Ogden Nash



Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. – J.C. Penney



Hard work is often an accumulation of the easy things you didn’t do when you should have. - anonymous

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Conscience: the Mother-In-Law who Never Leaves

Image by david55king via FlickrCarry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don’t ever apologize for anything. – Harry S. Truman




The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. – Mao Tse-Tung



Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind. – Frank Harris



A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house. – Sir Montague Burton



There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless. – anonymous



The Devil’s boots don’t creak. – Scottish proverb



Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. – Henry Louis Mencken

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An Appeal to Honor

Image by The U.S. Army via FlickrYou must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Boanparte




You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. – Eric Hoffer



I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me. – Duke of Wellington



Nothing ever perplexes an adversary so much as an appeal to his honor. – Benjamin Disraeli



Don’t worry because a rival imitates you. As long as he follows in your tracks he cannot overtake them. – anonymous



A cunning gamester never plays the card which his adversary expects, and far less that which he desires. – Baltasar Gracian



Better a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside. – Arabian Proverb

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Threatened Folks Live Long

Image by kafka4prez via FlickrMen are not against you; they are merely for themselves. – Gene Fowler




If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. Elbert Hubbard



There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. – Sydney Harris



There’s nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. – Euripides



If you shoot a king you must kill him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. – Cesar Chavez



Threatened folks live long. – Thomas Fuller

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Are All Men Mush?

Image by Thomas R. Stegelmann via FlickrThe meek shall inherit the earth: they won’t have the nerve to refuse. – John M. Henry




The meek shall inherit the earth – if that’s all right with you. – graffiti



Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison



Men are much more unwillng to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes. – Earl of Chesterfield



Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. – Charles Caleb Colton



Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. – Francois Voltaire



Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Minute You Think You've Got It, You've Lost It

Image by stuant63 via FlickrMan’s highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. – Johann wolfgang von Goethe




All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca



One time it pays to have a firm hand is when it shakes hands with a firmer one. – O.A. Battista



Our strength is often composed of the weakness we’re damned if we’re going to show. – Mignon McLaughlin



The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. – Jacques Benigne Boussuet



Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it. – E.D. Hulse



Let the meek inherit the earth – they have it coming to them. – James Thurber

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The Profanity of Uncompleted Tasks

Image via WikipediaNothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James




As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. – Julius Caesar



Work and love – there are the basics. Without them, there is neurosis. – Theodor Reik



To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. – Thomas C. Haliburton



In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain



Anxiety grows in solitude. Aloneness is the greatest breeding ground for the diffuse, unfocused, pervading uneasiness that makes us vulnerable to chronic worry. Almost anything can become a cause for concern to the solitary person; almost anything can make him fearful. – Allan Fromme



Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. – Henry Ward Beecher

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