Bored room place where company meetings run overtime.
--  Author Unknown

Accomplishing the impossible only means the boss will add it to your regular
duties.
--  Author Unknown

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
--  Author Unknown

Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
--  Author Unknown

Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.
--  Author Unknown

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss  and work twelve hours a day.
--  Robert Frost

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
--  Author Unknown

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
--  Sir Barnett Cocks

Doing nothing is tiring because you can't stop to rest.
--  Author Unknown

Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
--  Author Unknown

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
--  Dr. Lawrence J. Peter - The Peter Principle

The first thing a new employee should do on the job is learn to recognize his boss' voice on the phone.
--  Martin Buxbaum

Go the extra mile -- it makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
--  Author Unknown

The Golden Rule of Bureaucracy:  Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
--  Author Unknown

Hang in there Retirement is only 30 years away!
--  Author Unknown

I always arrive late to work, but I make up for it by leaving early.
--  Author Unknown

I thought I wanted a career; turns out I just wanted a salary.
--  Author Unknown

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research.
--  Author Unknown

If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
--  Author Unknown

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from
those who are still undecided.
--  Casey Stengal

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
--  Author Unknown

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
--  Dean Acheson

Of course I don't look busy... I did it right the first time!
--  Author Unknown

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
--  Author Unknown

Who says nothing is impossible. I've been doing nothing for years.
--  Author Unknown

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
--  W. Edwards Deming

People often say that motivation doesn't last.  Well, neither does bathing, that's why we
recommend it daily.
--  Zig Ziglar

Empowerment:  The authority to do exactly what your boss tells you to do.
--  Author Unknown

Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
--  Author Unknown

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
--  Bob Hope

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

October is a poor month for speculating on the stock market. Other poor months are
July, January, March, May, September, November,  February, April, June, August,
and December.
--  Mark Twain

A leader takes people where they want to go.  A great leader takes  people where they
don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
--  Rosalynn Carter

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
--  Kin Hubbard

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three  men, two of
whom are absent.
--  Robert Copeland

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any
good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--  Howard Aiken

Management tortured the data until it confessed.
--  David Powers

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side.
--  Hunter S. Thompson

If you had to identify in one word, the reason why the human race has
not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would
be "meetings.
--  Author Unknown

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then
quietly strangled.
--  Sir Barnett Cocks

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but
together can decide that nothing can be done.
--  Fred Allen

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter
with his business before his competitors do.
--  Roy L. Smith

A meeting - where you substitute the loneliness of thought for the
dreariness of conversation.
--  Grady  Easley

Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of hitting a piece of electronic
equipment to get it to work again.
--  Unnamed Computer Technician

Committees have become so important nowadays that sub-committees
have to be appointed to do the work.
--  Laurence J. Peter

A careful study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy
 anything was last year.
--  Author Unknown

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
--   Arnold H. Glasgow

A budget is a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.
--  A.A. Latimer

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity.  For
every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your
boss is away and you get twice as much done.
--  Dave Barry

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything
be more fun?
--  Katherine Graham

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has
not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would
be Meetings.
--  Dave Barry

When the outcome of a meeting
is to have another meeting,
it has been a lousy meeting.
--  Herbert Clark Hoover

My mind works like lightning.  One brilliant flash and it is gone.
--  Author Unknown

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have
let go.
--  William Feather

Here at First National, you're not just a number - you're
two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash, and
another number.
--  Author Unknown

The person who is waiting for something to turn up, might
start with their shirt sleeves.
--  Garth Henrichs

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
--  Norman Vincent Peale

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
--  Warren G. Bennis

Go on working, freely and furiously, and you will make progress.
--  Paul Gauguin

If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading
the pack.
--  Author Unknown

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than
electronic banking. It's called marriage.
--  James Holt McGavran

Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would know
are bound to fail.  The trouble is, there is never a child in the
boardroom when you need one.
--  Victor Palmieri

There is no monument anywhere dedicated to the memory of a
committee.
--  Author Unknown

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed —
there's so little competition.
--  Elbert Hubbard

Wall Street is the only place people ride to work in a Rolls-Royce
to get advice from those who take the subway.
--  Warren Buffet

Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.
--  Author Unknown

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it
wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can
solve it right.  Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a
comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an
absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
--  Thomas J. Watson

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't
go by yourself.
--  Joel Arthur Barker

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
--  R. W. Johnson

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he
fills out a job application form.
--  Stanley J. Randall

Tip for the day: Saying, "Well, I FEEL like a million dollars!"
doesn't carry much weight when the bank asks for collateral.
--  Mark Spence

Don't tell me how hard you work.  Tell me how much you get done.
--  James Ling

Price is what you pay.  Value is what you get.
--  Warren Buffet

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something
you are convinced should be done.
--  Vance Packard

Give up control even if it means the employees have to make some mistakes.
--  Frank Flores

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too
tough in the negotiations.  If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as
a house cat.
--  Marvin S. Levin

The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
--  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what
they conceal is vital.
--  Aaron Levenstein

Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours
--  Aditya

Leadership is the wise use of power.  Power is the capacity to
translate intention into reality and sustain it.
--  Warren Bennis

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got
it made.
--  Jean Giraudoux

Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
--  Charles H. Grosvenor

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you
do not know.
--  John Kenneth Galbraith

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land
with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
--  Eilliam Feather

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride.
Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
--  Fred Friendly

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is
what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it
 becomes spiritual in calling.
--  Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
--  Henry Ford

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a
single way to get one back.
--  Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

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.
--  Owen D. Young

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion,
adoption.
--  John Stuart Mill

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be
too tough in the negotiations.  If you're going to skin a cat, don't
keep it as a house cat.
--  Marvin S. Levin

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself
out of the better portion of your compensation.
--  Napoleon Hill

Work It isn't just for sleeping anymore
--  Author Unknown

The really idle man gets nowhere.  The perpetually busy man does
 not get much further.
--  Sir Heneage Ogilvie

People cannot see your service. So...they judge your service by what they
can see.  People will trust their eyes far before they will ever trust
your words.  Look at your business card.  Your lobby. Your shoes. What
do your visibles say about the invisible things you are trying to sell?
Watch what you show.
--  Harry Beckwith

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking
your work is terribly important.
--  Milo Bloom

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made,
in a narrow field.
--  Niels Bohr

The difference between a professional person and a technician
is that a technician knows everything about his job except its
ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
--  Richard W. Livingston

I want to share something with you - the three sentences
that will get you through life.
Number one, 'Cover for me.'
Number two, 'Oh, good idea, boss.'
Number three, 'It was like that when I got here.'
--  Homer Simpson

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor
upon the business known as gambling.
--  Ambrose Pierce

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction.
They may be summed up by the phrases
(1) It's completely impossible.
(2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
(3) I said it was a good idea all along.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
-- Frank C. Carlucci

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this
Act as if it were impossible to fail.  That is the talisman, the formula,
the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
-- Dorothea Brande

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes;
but no plans.
-- Peter F. Drucker

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle
o' the thing, it's th' money.
--  Frank McKinny "Kin" Hubbard

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
--  David Ricardo

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
--  Benjamin Franklin

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when
you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
-- Ken Blanchard

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas
are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken

Every sale has five basic obstacles
no need
no money
no hurry
no desire
no trust.
-- Zig Ziglar

Nobody motivates today's workers.  If it doesn't come from
within, it doesn't come.  Fun helps remove the barriers that
allow people to motivate themselves.
-- Herman Cain

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making
individual.
-- Mason Cooley

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've
solved it.
--  Kasspe

The smart thing to do is to begin trusting your intuitions.
--  Author Unknown

The wayside of business is full of brilliant men who started
out with a spurt, and lacked the stamina to finish.  Their
places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who
never knew when to quit.
-- J. R. Todd

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in
all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles
and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens
your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your
ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-
in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an
opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and
you throw away your future.
-- Og Mandino

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability
to outgrow small ones.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When in danger, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
-- S. Wright (Director of PDC, Cornell University)

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
--   B.C. Forbes

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be
too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't
keep it as a house cat.
-- Marvin S. Levin

If you cry "Forward," you must make it plain in what direction to go.
-- Anton Chekov

You don't need to know all the answers in advance.
Just have a clear idea of the goal you want to reach.
--  Author Unknown

When the poor steal from the middle class, it's called robbery.
When the middle class steal from the rich, it's called embezzlement.
When the rich steal from the poor, it's called Business.
--  Author Unknown

The ability to learn faster than your competitors
may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
-- Arie de Geus

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for
when you come back to your work your judgment will be
surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears
smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a
lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of
uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
-- Winston Churchill

We have always found that people are most productive in
small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom
to solve their own problems.
-- John Rollwagen

We tried to push the envelope, but it came back postage due.
--  Wall Street Journal, Oct. 29, 1998

Nothing is impossible, until it's sent to a committee.
--  Author Unknown

Every journalist is a believer! They may not believe in God or Darwin's
theory of the origin of the species, but they all believe in gremlins!
--  B.S. Pyle

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal
of visualization.  They mentally run through important events before they happen.
- - Charles A. Garfield

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
-- Stephen R. Covey

Keith's e-mail rule:  Any e-mail that says "Send this to everyone you know"
is a hoax and goes in the trash.
--  Keith Boncek

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire,
you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.
And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
You think about it; it's true.  If you hire somebody without the first
you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
-- Warren Buffet

Originality is the art of concealing your source.
-- Franklin P. Jones

There is no future in any job.  The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- Dr. George Crane

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss
and work twelve hours a day.
-- Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people:  some willing to work and some
willing to let them.
--  Author Unknown

The most important difference between business and academia is this:
In business everything is dog eat dog.  In academia it is just the reverse.
-- E. John Rosenwald, Jr.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication,
disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration
of those who did nothing.
-- Author Unknown

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-- Albert Einstein

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Check Enclosed."
-- Dorothy Parker

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity.
-- General George S. Patton

There are more important things in life than a little money, and one of them is a lot
of money.
--  Author Unknown

The best way to get something done is to begin.
--  Author Unknown

Breakthroughs come from an instinctive judgment of what customers might want
if they knew to think about it.
-- Andrew Grove, Intel

Faced with the choice between changing and proving there is no need to change,
most people get busy on the proof.
--  John Kenneth Galbraith

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A
language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented
a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you
least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of
your unit.
-- PS magazine, August 1993 (the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance)

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
--Industrialist Henry Frazier

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day.  Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
--Lev L. Spiro

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable
to you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
-- B.C. Forbes

A committee is a group of the unprepared,
appointed by the unwilling,
to do the unnecessary.
-- F. Allen

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the
sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may
be different because I was important in the life of a child.
-- Author Unknown

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
--  Ken Adelman

A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target.
-- Angie Papadakis

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.
-- Alstair Cooke

All Visitors bring joy to this office.
Some when they enter,
Others when they leave.
-- Sign seen in a Waiting Room

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is
to help the person ahead of you get promoted.
-- Richard S. Zera

Be comfortable around senior managers...or learn to fake it.
-- Richard A. Moran

Business is a game.
Lots of competition and a minimum of rules.
You keep score with money.
-- Nolan Bushnell

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a
boss and work twelve hours a day.
--  Robert Frost

Consensus is the negation of leadership.
--  Margaret Thatcher

Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never
be produced by money.
-- W. K. Kellogg

Ever notice that there are always more last minute details than there are
last minutes?
-- Ivern Ball

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.
-- Author Unknown

Everything takes longer than you thought it would, costs more than you
planned on spending and has some problem about which someone will say,
"How come you didn't know?"
-- Author Unknown

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-- Arthur Ashe

I believe that people who work 12 hours a day should go home with bigger
loaves of bread than people who work eight.
--  Michael Levine

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia,
he'd make a fortune.
-- Griff Niblack

If all the Financial Experts in this country were laid end to end, they
would still point in all directions.
-- Sam Ewing

If quitters never win, and winners never cheat, then who is the fool who
said "Quit while you're ahead?
-- Author Unknown

If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.
-- Malcolm Forbes

If you want to be a leader with a big following, just obey the speed limit on
a winding two-lane road.
-- Charles Farr

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
-- Kurt Lewin

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at
length and be right too late.
-- Marilyn M. Kennedy

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.  But if you
must be without one, be without the strategy.
--  Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf

Leadership is not about getting others to follow you, it's about getting
others to join you.
-- Marv Levy

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
-- Kim Hubbard

Management by objective works if you know the objectives.  Ninety percent
of the time you don't.
-- Peter Drucker

Money talks-- but credit has an echo.
-- Bob Thaves

Never confuse a memo with reality.
Most memos from the top are political fantasy.
-- Richard A. Moran

No job is so simple that it can't be done wrong.
-- Author Unknown

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and
unreliable.  It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings
perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there
is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform.
The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
-- Peter F. Drucker

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
--  Dennis A. Peer

Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of
life where none exists.
--Robert J. Meltzer

People forget how fast you did a job...but they remember how well you did it.
-- Howard W. Newton

The brain is a wonderful organ.  It starts work the moment you get up and
does not stop until you get into the office.
--  Robert Frost

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

The very essence of leadership is that you have vision.  You can't blow
an uncertain trumpet.
-- Theodore Hesburgh

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be
done at all.
-- Peter F. Drucker

These days the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the
publisher.
--  Ivern Ball

Warning: Authorities warn that "try" is a dangerous expression that has
enormous power to influence your behavior. It's toxic. Use it very carefully.
When "try" creeps into your language or into your thoughts, pluck it out quickly.
-- Walter Anderson

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
-- Francois de La Rochenfoucauld

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
-- Pearl Bailey

Whoever says money can't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop.
-- Telegraph Magazine

...Many acquisition-hungry managers were apparently mesmerized by their childhood
reading of the story about the frog-kissing  princess.  Remembering her success,
they pay dearly for the right  to kiss corporate toads, expecting wondrous
transfigurations.
-- Warren Buffett