Showing posts with label Bertram Troy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bertram Troy. Show all posts

Friday, October 15, 2010

Warning to Politician's - Gullibility is a Perishable Commodity

Warning – Customers Are Perishable – Store Sign



Women aren’t embarrassed when they buy men’s pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope dealer. – Jimmy Cannon



Tipping started when gratuities were dropped in a box marked T.I.P.S. – to insure prompt service. – Bertram Troy



No customer can be worse than no customer. – Leopold Fechtner



The public doesn’t know what it wants. We offer beautiful things that we like. Anyone who disagrees with our taste is free to go elsewhere. – Tiffany and Co.



The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it. – Joyce Carol Oates



Thursday, October 7, 2010

Buy More Cars so Everyone Can Afford One?

GLENDALE, CA - NOVEMBER 16:  Customers shop fo...Image by Getty Images via @daylife
Our nation’s economy seems to be based on the belief that we shouldn’t practice it. – Harold Coffin




One of the difficulties of economics is that it is too easy to explain after a particular event has happened, why it should have happened; and too easy to explain before it happens, why it should not happen. – M.G. Kendall



The economy may suffer if auto sales drop – but that’s the American way; we have to buy more cars than we need or we’ll never be able to afford them. – Jack Wilson



Everything now seems to be under federal control except the national debt and the budget. – Bob Goddard



There are three things not worth running for – a bus, a woman or a new economic panacea: if you wait a bit another will come along. – Derick Heathcoat Amory



There’s one way to solve all the biggest problems of life: make complacency taxable. – anonymous



Economics is all about the two biggest problems of life: how to make money and how to get along without it. – Bertram Troy