Creative Executives: The Creativity of Business & Executives in Inspirational Quotations

 

The Lighter Side of Business
 

 

The Lighter Side of Business

 
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
- Paul Valery
 
 
President, n. - The mischief executive of a republic or corporation
- Unknonw
 
 
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
- Thomas Fuller
 
 
Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
- Unknown
 
 
Business is like riding a bicycle--either you keep moving or you fall down.
- Unknown
 
 
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
- Joey Adams
 
 
To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.
- Chinese Proverb
 
 
Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.
- Steven Wright
 
 
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
- Eric Sevareid
 
 
Internal Revenue Service: The world's most successful mail-order business.
- Bob Goddard
 
 
When two men in a business always agree one of them is unnecessary.
- William Wrigley, Jr.
 
 
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
- Elbert Hubbard
 
 
An executive knows how to be wrapped up in his work without being tied down.
- Ann Griffith
 
 
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
- Richard Branson
 
 
Dear, never forget one little point: It's my business. You just work here.
- Elizabeth Arden
 
 
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
- Clara Barton
 
 
It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
- John Harvey
 
 
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
 
 
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step --  it is an old business procedure.
- Fran Lebowitz
 
 
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese
 
 
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
- Ambrose Bierce