 | #188 Business one-liners 62
If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.
If a... |
| #186 Business one-liners 61
I knocked several times, but you weren,t in. - Opportunity
I once worked as a salesman and was very independent; I took orders from no one.
I think we should really add to the confusion... Let,s... |
| #184 Business one-liners 60
He who shouts the loudest has the floor.
He who walks in another,s tracks leaves no footprints.
Hindsight is an exact science.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
History r... |
| #182 Business one-liners 59
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Has anyone ever heard of a self-made failure?
Have you flogged your crew today?
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| #180 Business one-liners 58
Given a bad start, trouble will increase at an exponential rate.
Glory may be fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Go where the money is.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too ol... |
| #178 Business one-liners 57
For every problem, there is a neat, plain solution...and it is always wrong.
For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision.
Four-wheel-drive just means getting stuck in more inaccess... |
| #175 Business one-liners 56
Familiarity breeds attempt.
Familiarity breeds children.
Far-away talent always seems better than home-developed talent.
Fill what is empty; empty what is full; scratch where it itches.
Fo... |
| #173 Business one-liners 55
Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.
Excuses are like bodies; everybody has one!
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Experience is something you... |
| #171 Business one-liners 54
Bureau Termination, Law of: When a government bureau is scheduled to be phased out, the number of employees in that bureau will double within 12 months after the decision is made.
Brooke,s Law: Whe... |
| #170 Business one-liners 53
Boucher,s Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music several octaves higher than originally written.
Bove,s Theorem: The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal incr... |
| #169 Business one-liners 52
Berra,s Law: You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra
Bierman,s Laws of Contracts: (1) In any given document, you can,t cover all the "what if,s". (2) Lawyers stay in business resolving... |
| #168 Business one-liners 51
Anthony,s Law of Force: Don,t force it, get a larger hammer.
Anthony,s Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner or the workshop. Corollary: On the way... |
| #167 Business one-liners 50
Approval Seeker,s Law: Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. - Washington writer Rozanne Weissman
The Aquinas Axiom: What the gods get away with, the cows don,t.
Army Axiom:... |
| #166 Business one-liners 49
Acheson,s Rule Of The Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. - Dean Acheson
Action,s Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolute... |
| #165 Business one-liners 48
There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrnog.
There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrrong.
There is no limit to how bad things can get.
There is no limit to the amount o... |
