Business quotations

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are (R.H. Grant)

We're overpaying him but he's worth it (Sam Goldwyn)

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it (Upton Sinclair)

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own (Harry S. Truman)

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs (Sam Goldwyn)

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing (Robert Benchley)

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers (Daniel J. Boorstin)

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read (Frank Zappa)

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem (John Paul Getty)

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain (Mark Twain)

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today (Laurence J. Peter)

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led (Warren G. Bennis)

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them (Harry S. Truman)

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

Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent, not by 1 percent (Edward Denison, 1960)