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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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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Pogo - We are Confronted with Insurmountable Opportunities

Image by elycefeliz via FlickrIt is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. – George M. Adams




We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. – Pogo



The secret of happiness in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli



For the highest task of intelligence is to grasp and recognize opportunity, possibility. – John Dewey



God’s best gift to us is not things, but opportunities. – Alice W. Rollins



No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. – Ashanti Proverb



With a relation eat and drink; but conduct no business with him. – Greek proverb

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Nothing is Comtemptible in Politics

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Give a politician a free hand and he will put it in your pocket. – anonymous




A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. – friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. – American proverb



In politics, nothing is contemptible. – Benjamin Disraeli



Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. – General Charles de Gaulle



Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Boise Penrose

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The Blank Canvas of a Businessman

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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. – Euripides

You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself. – Zig Ziglar

Little things affect little minds. – benjamin Disraeli

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. – William James

Because consultants are outsiders, and they don’t know the corporate culture, they can ask the dumb questions that no one else would dare ask. – Tom Ahern

A control system is not automatic. A well-designed system with the best procedures won’t work without attention. People – not paper – make it work. – Joel E. Ross and Michael J. Kami

The yellow pad is the blank canvas of the businessman. – Bill Ghormley