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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Weakness Corrupts the Many

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The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Pittacus

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. – Henrik Ibsen

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. – Eric Hoffer

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover

Knowledge! Money! Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on. – Tennessee Williams

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. – Ausonius



Use power to curb power. – Chinese proverb

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Don’t Set a (Goldman Sachs) Fox to Watching Your Chickens

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It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. – Ian E. Wilson

If two friends ask you to be judge in a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. – Saint Augustine

You don’t set a fox to watching the chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the hen house. – Harry S. Truman

It is only in our decisions that we are important. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear “on the other hand... – Herbert Hoover

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. – Calvin Coolidge

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Torture the Data!

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Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything. – Anonymous

Round numbers are always fake. – Samuel Johnson

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so. – Will Rogers

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money. – Anonymous

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover

When you can’t make both ends meet, make one potatoes. – American saying

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. – Errol Flynn

The reason most of us don’t live within our income is that we don’t consider that living. – Joe Moore

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The Art of Saying "Nice Doggie" Until You Can Find a Rock

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing in the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. – Carl Sandburg

A cardinal rule of politics is never get caught in bed with a live man or a dead woman. – Larry Hagman

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

Diplomacy it the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain

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• Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. (quotationsbook.com)