How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won’t be room for us.
Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Over the years, I’ve evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it’s worth going through the whole to get there.
People who say that money isn’t the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they’re just uncovered anew.
It’s never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.
You can’t fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.
To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.
After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they’re winners.
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.
People who never get carried away should be.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won’t the next time.
The ultimate high: A man’s abilities equaling his opinion of’em.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.