Known by the Company He Merges

Image via WikipediaBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Thomas Woodrow Wilson



People of the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some diversion to raise prices. – Adam Smith



My father always told me that businessmen were sons of bitches. – John F. Kennedy



Running a business is no trouble at all as long as it is not yours. – anonymous



It is not by any means certain that a man’s business is the most important thing he has to do. – Robert Louis Stevenson



My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. – Oscar Wilde



A man is known by the company he merges. – Leonard Louis Levenson

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We're Drowning in Information and Starving for Knowledge

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It would be a great mistake to confine your imagination to the way things have always been done. In fact it would consign you to the mediocrity of the marketplace. – Harold Geneen

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. – Woodrow Wilson

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan

Intuition becomes increasing valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -–Rutherford D. Rogers

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. – Oscar Wilde

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Politicians - Growing? Swelling? Or a Little of Both?

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The average male gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. – H.L. Mencken

Times have changed. Forty years ago people worked 12 hours a day and it was called economic security. Now they work 14 hours a day, and it’s called moonlighting. – Robert Orben

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. – Charles Dudley Warner

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man office I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. – Woodrow Wilson

Maybe they call it take-home pay because there is no other place you can afford to go with it. – Franklin P. Jones

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn’t stop until you get into the office. – Robert Frost