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Confession may be good for the soul, but it is bad for the reputation. – Thomas R. Dewar

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

A promise made is a debt unpaid. – Robert w. Service

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to. – Mark Twain

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. – W.C. Fields

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. – Claud Cockburn

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. – Max Lerner

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A Corporation Cannot Blush - But Some Should

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. – Sir Edward Coke

Americans: people who laugh at African witch doctors and spend 100 million dollars on fake reducing systems. – Leonard Louis Levinson

A corporation cannot blush. – anonymous

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. – Henry David Thoreau

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. – Ivan Boesky

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. – Andrew Young

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where Wise Men Fear to Trade

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No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. – Peter Drucker

Interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. – Marshall McLuhan

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, beward of danger – but recognize the opportunity. – Richard M. Nixon

Nachman’s Rule: when it comes to foreign food the less authentic the better. – Gerald Nachman

Mass transport is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

The dollar has become like a hydrant at an international convention for dogs. – Eliot Janeway

Immigration - the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. – Jack Paar

If you speak three languages, you are trilingual. If you speak two languages, you’re bilingual. If you speak one language, you’re American. – Anonymous

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything. – Steve Martin

From Montreal to Munich to Melbourne, the world is too large and filled with too many diverse people and firms for any single marketing strategy to satisfy everyone. – David L. Kurtz

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all those foreign countries, for I have a theory that it’s their country and they got a right to run it like they want to. – Will Rogers

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. – Douglas MacArthur

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. – Andrew Mellon

Men Will Begin to Think Like Computers

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If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

Whenever there are great strains or changes in the economic system, it tends to generate theories which then find their way into the legislative channels. – David Stockman

Auditors are the people who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded. – Paul Rubin

Accountants can be smarter than anybody else or more ambitious or both, but essentially they are bean counters – their job is to serve the operation. They can’t run the ship. – Robert Townsend

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

To err is human but really foul up require a computer. – Paul Ehrlich

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris

The computer revolution is the most advertised revolution in world history. Yet one of the funny things about it is that we probably will still underestimate its impact. – Herman Kahn