BUSINESS / FINANCE

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather, and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert Frost

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed for our prisons. – John Ruskin

“In any hierarchal organization, individuals tend to rise to their level of incompetence.” – Lawrence J. Peter – THE PETER PRINCIPLE – 1969

“A National sales tax also encourages savings and investments.  A national sales tax would radically change the way government does business, and it would also encourage everyone to be in charge of their own money.  It would slowly motivate people to relinquish their dependence on government entitlements and subsidies.” – Russell D. Longmore – A TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION                

Bank accounts are like toothpaste—easy to take out, but hard to put back in. – Unknown

Credit card companies are no better than drug dealers.  They hang around our schools, prey on the young students, and entice with promises of shopping sprees and unrealistic interest rates.  When their victims are sufficiently addicted to the plastic substance, these ruthless banks, the equivalent of drug lords, jack up the interest rates, making it impossible for their victims to recover. – David A. Lloyd, Studio City, CA.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off.  You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs

A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you prove that you don’t need it. – Bob Hope

Somehow, I just don’t trust advertisements that say, “People just like you.”  I hope there is no one just like me. – Gary Pulliam

Easy doesn’t do it. – Al Berstein                                                               

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese proverb

One thing to remember—no one can teach you when to close.  You learn to close by doing it too early or too often. – Karl Bach                                             

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                               

Do, or do not.  There is no try. – Yoda                                                                   

The closest to perfection we get is when we fill out a job application. – Unknown

Every tub sits on its own bottom. – Zig Zigler                                                  

Success comes from going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – W. Churchill

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“An employee that excels at his or her job is likely to be awarded with a promotion.  However, the employee gets promoted to a position whose demands exceed his abilities, and he ends up marooned there with no prospect of further advancement and little chance of demotion.” – Lawrence J. Peter – THE PETER PRINCIPLE – 1969

Success is self-bestowed—mediocrity is self-inflicted. - How TRUE.        

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. – Universal truth              

The only way to control how you are seen by other people is by being honest all the time. – Tom Hanks                                                                                    

We spend our whole life selling other people ideas. – Art Linkletter                 

Crisis is opportunity riding a dangerous wind. – Dennis Waitley

People are too lazy to dig for worms even when they’re unemployed.  No one has raised the standard of living more that the professional salesman. – Paul Harvey

Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it. – (Coach) Lou Holtz                         

Success means controlling your own time.  If you gain control over 60% of the time in your life, you are really successful.  Time is the most expensive currency, but once you spend it, it’s gone. – Rod Steiger

After eating an entire BULL, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring.  He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.  The moral:  When you know you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut. – Will Rogers

The INFORMATION REVOLUTION has changed people’s perception of wealth.  We originally said that land was wealth.  Then we thought it was industrial production.  Now we realize it’s intellectual capital.  The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important than money.  This is a major change in the way the world works.  The same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people now in industry as we move into the information age. – Walter Wriston, former CEO of Citicorp

RUNNING WATER purifies itself—STAGNANT WATER becomes poison.  People need a vehicle to pull themselves out of the pits of mediocrity.  This is now called motivation. – Gary Pulliam

It’s not the HOURS in your work that counts—it’s the work in your hours. – Sam Ewing

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There are two kinds of people—those who do all the work, and those who take the credit.  Try to be in the first group—there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

Ambition is a path to success.  Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. – Eugenie B. Eardley.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duel, retiring commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899. 

Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you’re doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

“There would be no need for deductions or filling out yearly tax forms.  Hence, the Internal Revenue Service and all its complex tax stipulations would be abolished.  All other taxes would thus be eliminated.  No property tax, no personal property tax, estate tax, income tax, gift tax, capital gains, tariffs, duties, alternative minimum, use tax, Social Security, Medicare and self-employment taxes.” – Russell D. Longmore – A NEW TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION

There is only one boss – the customer.  And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down simply by spending his money somewhere else. – Sam Walton

Drive your business, let not your business drive you. – Benjamin Franklin

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. – Ambrose Bierce         

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something, and the switchboard operator knows everything. – Harold Coffin

Treat employees like partners, and they will act like partners. – Fred A. Allen  

It is a far better thing to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. – Warren Buffett      

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie       

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. – Henry Ford