Darkly Comical Business Quotes

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
- H. G. Wells

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody or other. – Keble

Statistics are no substitute for judgement. – Henry Clay

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. – Quarles

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. – Henry Ford

The old Quaker was right: “I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once. – W.C. Gannett

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. – Erasmus

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. – Thomas A. Edison

He who is plentiously provided for from within needs but little from without. – Goethe

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. – Sir Walter Bilbey

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. – Albert Einstein

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow man. – Norvin G. McGranahan

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity an d concentrate your force on one or a few points. – Emerson

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Norman MacEwan

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows—he breathes but does not live
- Sanskrit Proverb

The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- Don Marquis

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. – Edwin H. Stuart

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. - Spurgeon

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. - Campbell

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track—an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. – Henry Ward Beecher

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Bacon

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. – August Heckscher

An idea a day will keep the sheriff away. – Don E. Roseman

Rules for Business success
 Carefully examine every detail of the business.
 Be prompt.
 Take time to consider and then decide quickly.
 Dare to go forward.
 Bear your trouble patiently.
 Maintain your integrity as a sacred thing.
 Never tell business lies.
 Make no useless acquaintances.
 Never try to appear something more than you are.
 Pay your debts promptly.
 Learn how to risk your money at the right time.
 Shun strong liquor.
 Employ your time well.
 Do not reckon on chance.
 Be polite to everyone.
 Never be discouraged.
 Work hard and you will succeed.
Rothschild

A precedent embalms a principle. – Disraeli

Tsze-King asked, “Is there not one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?”
The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Thoreau

Pressure is on us by the nature of the job. Performance releases pressure. – Fisher

Work is often the father of pleasure. - Voltaire

Darkly Comical Quotes on Business

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
– C. Malesherbes

He’s no failure. He’s not dead yet. – W.L.George

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of phiosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
– H. Kellogg

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
–Johnson

The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expedience; the other acts on enduring principles.
– Burke

Education is anything we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else. – Lyman Bryson

Earn a little, and spend a little—less. – John Stevenson

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step in something better. – Wendell Phillips

To live is not to learn, but to apply. – Legouve

Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men daily breathe it and do not know it.
– Thomas A. Edison

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
– Cicero

When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by. – Spanish Proverb

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. – G.D. Boardman

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi

It is where a man spends his money that shows where his heart lies. – A. Edwin Keigwin, D.D.

Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren’t good at details. Don’t ignore details. – Wm B. Given, Jr.

Do not think that what our thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you. – Bishop Steere

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. – Horace Greeley

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – J. Lubbock

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time—not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life nest year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance, unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day. – Thomas Dreier

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. – Sir W. Temple

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one’s self the seeds of the baseness the other is accused of. - Stanislaus

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

External things and opportunities so abound in American life that, instead of nurturing the true source of happiness, we tend to make it a direct aim. So we end in looking for happiness in possession of the external—in money, a good time, somebody to lean on, and so on. We are impatient, hurried and fretful because we do not find happiness where we look for it. - John Dewey

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities. – Macaulay

There is work tat is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. – Gelett Burgess

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. – Arabian Proverb

You have a shilling. I have a shilling. We swap. You have my shilling and I have yours. We are no better off. But suppose you have an idea and I have an idea. We swap. Now you have two ideas and I have two ideas. We have increased our stock of ideas 100%. – A.S. Gregg

If you cannot make money on one dollar—if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won’t know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars. – E.S. Kinnear

Sometimes the best gain is to lose. – Herbert

During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple: It is because I did everything promptly. – Sir Richard Tangye

Sorrow’s best antidote is employment. – Young

The saying that knowledge is power is not quite true. Used knowledge is power, and more than power. It is money, and service, and better living for our fellowmen, and a hundred other good things. But mere knowledge, left unused, has not power in it.
– Dr. Edward E. Free

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remainsand is immortal. Albert Pine

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done – nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.
John Lee Mahin

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images that have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up n o materials can produce no combinations. Sir J. Reynolds

The inlet of man’s mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas that he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community. Jeremiah W. Jenks

My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted or hung on a wall of his room. In effect, the sentence was: “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.” That is tragically true. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us don’t even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world. Pollack

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law’s hand upon the jewelry of our minds. Burritt

Those who give have all things; those who withhold have nothing. – Hindu Proverb

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts. George F. Tilton

Life’s greatest achievement is the continual re-making of yourself so that at last you know how to live. Winfred Rhodes
If the power to do hard work in not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it. James A Garfield

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes

Darkly Comical Business Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. Henry Ford

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Samuel Lover

If things are not going well with you, begin your efforts at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
Roger Babson

Most business men generally are so busy coping with the immediate and piecemeal matters that there is a lamentable tendency to let the “long run” or future take care of itself. We often are so busy “putting out fires,” so to speak, that we find it difficult to do the planning that would prevent those fires from occurring in the first place. As a prominent educator has expressed it, Americans generally “spend so much time on things that are urgent that we have none left to spend on those that are important.
Gustav Metzman

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes