Keyword: Business

Security isn’t. Management can’t. Sales promotions don’t. Customer assistance doesn’t. Worker’s won’t.

Murphy’s Laws Work

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive – right, left, and in the middle.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Situations

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

Money

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

Business: Something which, if you don’t have any, you go out of.

Definitions

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Activities Games Money

Commerce: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. 

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Money

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

(1874 – 1962) American industrialist, lawyer & diplomat
Honesty Work

There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host
Entertainment Work

Business adventurous

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Malaprops

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.


Money

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Murphy’s Laws

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it; in government, you don’t have to worry about that.

(1920 – ) U.S. Secretary of State economist, statesman & businessman
Characteristics Government Occupations People Work

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business… my business.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian
People Self Work

Business: The art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

American author
Money

The sumptuousnss of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion to its profitability that year.

Books Communication Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

I understand small business growth… I was one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Bushisms