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People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.
A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.
I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.
When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.
Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.
You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?
None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.
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.
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.
Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.
Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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.
On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.
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.
I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.