Sonny Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Business one-liners: The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination. The sun goes down just when you need it the most. The tasks and chores that get rewarded, get done first. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys. The tough part of a Data Processing Manager's job is that users don't really know what they want, but they know for what they don't want. The trouble with doing right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was! The two greatest causes of system failures are sysadmins and users. If you can keep both of these groups away from your machines, the reliability increases dramatically. The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. The trick is to stop thinking it is 'your' money. - IRS auditor The trouble with life is that it's a do-it-yourself kit without instructions. There is never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over. Business one-liners 46: The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. The workbench is always untidier than last time. The worse your line is tangled, the better is the fishing around you. The yoo-hoo you you-hew into the forest is the yoo-hoo you get back. There are no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison, remarking about his laboratory There are no winners in life...only survivors. There are only two forces that unite men, fear and self-interest...Napoleon There are three ways to get things done: do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or forbid your kids to do it. There are two kinds of people who don't say much: those who are quiet and those who talk a lot. There are two rules for success in life: Rule 1 - Don't tell people everything you know. There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion. Business one-liners 47: There are two things on earth that are universal: hydrogen and stupidity. There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. There is a right way, a wrong way, and my way to do everything. There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. There is always one more bug. There is always one more idiot than you counted on. There is no evidence to support the notion that life is serious. There is nothing so habit-forming as money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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