Money Never Goes to Jail

Image via WikipediaTwo men were walking along a crowded sidewalk in a down-town business area. Suddenly one exclaimed, “Listen to the lovely sound of that cricket.” But the other could not hear. He asked his companion how he could detect the sound of a cricket amid the din of people and traffic. The first man, who was a zoologist, had traineed himself to listen to the voice of nature. But he didn’t explain. He simply took a coin out of his pocket and dropped it to the sidewalk, whereupon a dozen people began to look about them. “We hear,” he said, “what we listen for.” – Kermit L. Long




If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is more boring. – Marya Mannes



Money never goes to jail. – Arab proverb



I like Paris. They don’t talk so much of money, but more of sex. – Vera Stravinsky



It is extraordinary to what an expense of time and money people will go to get something for nothing. – Robert Lynd



A man’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character – how he makes it and how he spends it. – James Moffatt

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The Sure Way to Get Nothing for Something

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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. – Wilson Mizner




Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables, “Do not try.”



A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope. – William Bolitho



Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster. – Yugoslav Proverb



Gaming is the son of avarice, and the father of dispair. – French proverb



Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. – George Washington

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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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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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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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How Did the Snail Reach the Ark?

Image via WikipediaPerseverance is another name for success. – Anonymous




When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt



One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. – Fulton J. Sheen



The last key in the bunch is often the one to open the lock. – Anonymous



Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott



One of the first rules of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. – Carolyn Wells



By perseverance the snail reached the Ark. - Charles Spurgeon

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Milking the Greedy Pauses Until they're Udderless

Image via WikipediaThe human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – Sir George Jessel




The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. – Adolf Hitler



Lecturer: One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. – Ambrose Bierce



The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. – Ruth Gordon



If you are offered an honorarium for a speech, you can be sure the money is of no consequncium. – Merle Miller’



All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



I’m going to milk those greedy pauses till they’re udderless. – Richard Burton

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More Hatched than come to Perfection

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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




No man can be a pure specialist without being in a strict sense an idiot. – Geroge Bernhard Shaw



The professional mind is so microscopic that it sometimes ceases to be binocular. – Bernard De Voto



The priest’s friend loses his faith, the doctor’s his health. – Venetian proverb



Lawyers, preachers and tomtit’s eggs. There are more of them hatched than come to perfection. – Benjamin Franklin



Professions, like nations, are civilized to the degree to which they can satirise themselves. – Peter de Vries



It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work. – May Sarton

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Never Tell Them What You Wouldn't Do

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When a person tells you, “I’ll think it over and let you know” – you know. – Olin Miller
Never tell them what you wouldn’t do. – Adam Clayton Powell



If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. – John Foster Dulles



The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. – Frank McKinney Hubbard



With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play. – Friedrich Hebbel



We cannot negotiate with those who say, “What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable. – John F. Kennedy



Whenever you accept our views we shall be in full agreement with you. – Moshe Dayan

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It's Rarely Pure and Never Simple

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Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth – to see it as it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth. Denis Diderot

There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. – Niels Bohr

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

The truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. – Allai E. Stevenson

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth has a way of shifting under pressure. – Curtis Bok

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Time Wounds all Heels

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Time wounds all heels. – Jane Ace

Time carries away all things, even our wits. – Virgil

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

Since the early bird catches the worm, it’s a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can – unless of course, you happen to be a worm. – Edwin C. Bliss

Next week there can’t be any crisis. My schedule is already full. – Henry A. Kissinger

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. - Harold Macmillan

Apodictic, adj. – Clearly and undenialby true. – Joseph Heifetz Byrne – Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary

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Statistics: the Kind You Make Up

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Investors want to believe. Always looking for a better way, a chance to gain an advantage in the market, they are particularly susceptible to arguments that use statistics. – Mark A. Johnson

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. – Rex Stout

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. – Henry A. Kissinger

Even when people are more successful than they had imagined nothing is ever achieve without giving something up. – Judith M. Bardwick

Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle. – Edwin C. Bliss

Success is much more difficult to deal with than failure, because only you will know how you are handling it. – Harold Geneen

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. – O.A. Battista

Interesting Answers Destroy the Questions

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Nothing is so good that some fault cannot be found with it. – Aesop fable

It’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. – Eugene Ionesco

‘Tis not every question that deserves an answer. – Thomas Fuller

Good questions outrank easy answers. – Paul A. Samuelson

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. – Susan Sontag

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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The Univesal Innate Desire of all Organisms to live Beyond Income

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That’s the old American way – if you get a good thing, then overdo it. – Phil Walden

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are already going. – John Naisbitt

When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters. – Milton S. Gould

In attacking, unless you have a three-to-one advantage – and even if you do – go around the side. – Robert Heller

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. – Peter Borden

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on by my fingernails. – Barbara Aronstein Black

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Like an Ox-Cart Driver in Monsoon Season

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Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into sand. – Japanese proverb

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. – Pliny the Elder

The happiest time in any man’s life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. – Henry Wheeler Shaw

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. – Confucius

Where profit is, loss hides nearby. – Japanese proverb

Like a ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. – John Barth

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

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Contracting New Debts is not the way to Pay Old Debts

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When politicians come up with a solution to your problem, you have two problems. – J. Kesner Kahn

The chief cause of problems is solutions. – Eric Sevareid

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Thomas Fuller

Properly used a pencil can be one of the most effective weapons against procrastination. – Edward C. Bliss

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. – Bible, Proverbs 13:12

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. – Elbert Hubbard

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. – George Washington

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The Interest Paid by Those who Borrow Trouble

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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life. – C.R. Smith

Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. – George W. Lyon

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. – Thomas Fuller

Intractable problems are usually not intractable because there are no solutions, but because there are no solutions without severe side effects. – Lester C. Thurow

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. – Richard H. Tawney

People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow

All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller

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Loudness is Impotence

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Tis the sorest of all human ills, to abound in knowledge and yet have no power over action. – Herodotus

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes

The dinosaur’s eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. – Eric Johnston

The more noise a man or a motor makes the less power there is available. – W.R. McGeary

Loudness is impotence. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. – Horace

The very essence of all power lies in getting the other person to participate. – Harry Overstreet

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