Quotable Business : Over 2,800 Funny, Irreverent, and Insightful Quotations About Corporate Life

Quotations 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 guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are
sufficient punishment for anyone." --F. Lee Bailey

"I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes, we would have had tax reform long ago." --Bill Archer