Quotable Business: Over 2,500 Funny, Irreverent and Insightful Quotations About Corporate Life - Softcover

ions for Every Business Occasion

"You can build a throne on bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."        --Boris Yeltsin

"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted on the Sistine floor."        --Neil Simon

"Poor Mexico.  So far from God and so close to the United States."        --Porfirio Diaz

"The two things that people want more than sex or money are recognition and praise."        --Mary Kay Ash

"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away."  --Anonymous

"The opposite of talking isn't listening.  The opposite of talking is  waiting."  --Fran Lebowitz

"I have knowingly defended a number of guilt

"Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

-- Ambrose Bierce

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a man."

-- Margaret Thatcher"

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

-- Malcolm Forbes

"Never make forecasts, especially about the future."

-- Samuel Goldwyn

"Few great men could pass personnel."

-- Paul Goodman

"All the men on my staff can type."

-- Bella Abzug

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up

-- Ogden Nash

"Always remember that this whole thing started by a mouse."

-- Walt Disney