What do a Mistress and Cancer Have in Common?

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. – Henry Lousis Mencken




When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. – Oscar Wilde



There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it. – Cicero



No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well. – Margaret Thatcher



Money differs from an automobile, a mistress or cancer in being equally important to those who have it and those who don’t. – John Kenneth Galbraith



Life is short and so is money. – Bertolt Brecht

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Going Broke Methodically

Image via WikipediaBankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in you pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. – Joey Adams



Remember that even though work stops, nevertheless the expenses continue to mount up. – Marcus Cato



Evolution has her own accounting system and that’s the only one that matters. – R. Buckminster Fuller



Those who work out our federal budget

have a policy – really a honey.

We shall live on our national income,

even if we must borrow the money!

Leverett Lyon



A budget is the way to go broke methodically. – anonymous



I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey



One of the great pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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It's Always August Under your Armpits

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On CBS radio the news of Ed Murrow’s death, reprotedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. – Alexander Kendrick




I have been against commercial broadcasting ever since I heard a Toscanini radio concert in New York interrupted by the sponsor’s slogan – “It may be December outside, ladies; but it is always August under your armpits. – John Snagge



Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. – John Kenneth Galbraith



The best ad is a good product. – Alan H. Meyer



In advertising there is a saying that if you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs – then you just don’t understand the problem. – Hugh M. Beville, Jr.



It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett

The Concatenation of Ephemeralities

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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true. – Roger von Oech

Something happens to a man when he puts on a necktie. It cuts off all the oxygen to his brain. – A.J. Carothers

All life is a concatenation of ephemeralities. – Alfred Kahn

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To be Taken in by Hope

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Nothing is good or bad but by comparison. – Thomas Fuller

If there’s an opinion, facts will be found to support it. – July Sproles

When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. – John Kenneth Galbraith

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did, I said I didn’t know. – Mark Twain

Future, Noun – that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce – The Devil’s Dictionary

During the last recession, many companies faced the future with “cautious optimism.” Hardly any chose to face it with “reckless pessimism.”

More are taken in by hope than by cunning. – Luc de Clapiers

Refuting A Sneer

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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. – Victor Hugo

Who can refute a sneer? – William Paley

An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. – Victor Hugo

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. – Peter F. Drucker

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide from the real truth. – Jay Cocks

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion. – Philip Wylie

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Stranger than Kiwi Birds at Mating Time

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the troublemaking individual. – James K. Glassman

The best person you interview isn’t necessarily the best person for the job. – Robert Half

Supervisor-subordianate relationships are undoubtedly among the oddest forms of human interaction. They are even stranger than kiwi birds at mating time. – Jeffrey G. Allen

Just being available and attentive is a great way to use listening as a management tool. Some employees will come in, talk for twenty minutes, and leave having solved their problem entirely by themselves. – Nicholas V. Iuppa

Anyone who says he isn’t going to resign, four times, definitely will. – John Kenneth Galbraith

It’s amazing how many people ruin their backs by sitting endlessly at their $3,000 computer in a $3 chair. – John Bear

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter F. Drucker

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