Just Business

The following are from The Official MBA Handbook of Great Business Quotations
by Jim Fisk & Robert Barron:
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
— Earl Wilson

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
— Margaret Thatcher (attributed)

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
— Lilly Tomlin

Management is the art of getting other people to do all the work.
— Anonymous

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
— Anonymous

Originality is the art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Not sure where we heard this one

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you're doing, but nobody else does.
— Stewart Henderson Britt

There are some men who, in a fifty-fifty proposition, insist on getting the hyphen too.
— Lawrence J. Peter

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it to themselves.
— Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president

Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.
— Voltaire

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
— Winston Churchill

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.
— Colis P. Huntington, magnate who helped build the transcontinental railroad

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.
— Jonathan Swift

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
— W. Somerset Maugham

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
— Bill Vaughan

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
— Earl Wilson

If you could sell your experience for what it cost you, you would have a fortune.
— Herbert Prochnow

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
— Anatole France

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
— Mark Twain