 | #136 Business one-liners 31
Real programmers don,t grumble about the disadvantages of Fortran when they don,t know any other language.
Real programmers don,t notch their desks for each completed service request.
Real progr... |
| #135 Business one-liners 30
Programming errors which would normally require one day to find will take five days when the programmer is in a hurry.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things.
Progre... |
| #134 Business one-liners 29
Persons disagreeing with your facts are always emotional and employ faulty reasoning.
Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation.
Pick good people; talent n... |
| #132 Business one-liners 28
People who complain about the way the ball bounces usually dropped it.
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made.
People who think they know everyt... |
| #131 Business one-liners 27
Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
Other people,s tools work only in other people,s gardens.
Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails.
Our... |
| #130 Business one-liners 26
Everything is always done for the wrong reasons.
Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Everything takes longer ... |
| #129 Business one-liners 25
Everybody should believe in something, I believe I,ll have another beer.
Everybody,s gotta be someplace.
Everyone breaks more than the seven-year-bad-luck allotment to cover rotten luck througho... |
| #128 Business one-liners 24
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average.
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Entropy has us outnumbered.
Error is often more earnest than truth.
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| #127 Business one-liners 23
Don,t stop to stomp on ants when the elephants are stampeding.
Don,t try to have the last word; you might get it.
Don,t worry about the sand in the Vaseline, they don,t use it anyway.
Due to ... |
| #126 Business one-liners 22
Don,t bite the hand that has your paycheck in it.
Don,t blame me; nobody asked my opinion.
Don,t do today that which can be put off till tomorrow.
Don,t force it, get a bigger hammer.
Don,... |
| #125 Business one-liners 21
Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets what the majority deserves.
Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to "get lost" in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
Dip... |
| #124 Business one-liners 20
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
Cop-out number 1. You should have seen it when I got it.
Create a need and fill it.
Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.
Creativit... |
| #123 Business one-liners 19
Common sense is not so common.
Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough. - Descartes, 1637
Communication with the dead is only a little mo... |
| #122 Business one-liners 18
By the time you can make ends meet, they,ve moved the ends.
By the time you have the right answers, no one is asking you questions.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get... |
| #121 Business one-liners 17
Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden
Beware the man of one book. - St. Thomas Aquinas
Beware the wrath of a patient person.
Blessed are those who go around in circles, for they sha... |
