Finance and Economics Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

306 Finance and Economics Quotes
“When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.”
R. H. Grant Quotes
“It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.”
Chuck Hillis Quotes
“We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.”
Brian Corby Quotes
“We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.”
Jeffrey P. Davidson Quotes
“For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.”
Albert Greenfield Quotes
“If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.”
Charles Beacham Quotes
“We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".”
Owen Davies Quotes
“The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.”
Priscilla Elfrey Quotes
“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”
Adam C. Engst Quotes
“I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.”
Tim Gould Quotes
“Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.”
William Hewlitt Quotes
“This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.”
Amelia E. Barr Quotes
“When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.”
Les Brown Quotes
“Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.”
Harry Browne Quotes
“Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?”
Maurice Mascaranhas Quotes
“The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.”
Sholom Aleichem Quotes
“There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.”
Edward Atkinson Quotes
“If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.”
Edward N. Hurley Quotes
“Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.”
Nonnee Coan Quotes
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
William Cobbett Quotes
“Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.”
Thomas Robert Dewar Quotes
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.”
Arthur Godfrey Quotes
“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
Denis Healey Quotes
“Only little people pay taxes.”
Leona Helmsley Quotes
“The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.”
Laurence Lee Quotes