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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SIN 3
How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French fries.
James French
He that falls into sin is a man; who grieves at it, is a saint; who boasteth of it, is a devil.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Robert Galvin
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay (1688-1732, British playwright, poet)
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
Harold S. Geneen (1910-1977, American accountant, industrialist)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication
Michael E. Gerber (American businessman, consultant, author, trainer)
I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976, American oil tycoon, arts patron)
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Walter Gilbey
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974, American film producer, founder of MGM)
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974, American film producer, founder of MGM)
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
Ruth Gordon
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...
Gerald Gould
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf (1969-, German tennis player)
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
Andrew Grove (1936-, US engineer and corporation executive - Intel)
God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
George Gurdjieff (1873-1949, Russian adept, teacher, writer)
The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676, British judge)
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Charles Handy (American business executive and writer)
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
B. F. Harris
He is not praised whose praiser deserveth not praise.
Gabriel Harvey
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
John Harvey-Jones (1924-, Business writer and executive)
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Paul Hawken (American businessman, founder of Smith & Hawken)
The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
B. R. Hayden (1913-1980, American poet)
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856, German poet, journalist)
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Bruce Henderson (American businessman, CEO of Boston Consulting Group)
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.
Alexander Herzen (1812-1870, Russian journalist, political thinker)
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Cullen Hightower
No agency is better than its account executives.
Morris Hite
The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.
Morris Hite
No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
Hitopadesa (600-1100 AD, Sanskrit fable from Panchatantra)
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Billie Holiday (1915-1959, American jazz singer)
Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Harold Hook (American businessman, CEO of American General)
The right name is an advertisement in itself.
Claude Hopkins
How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle, satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells (1837-1920, American novelist, critic)
The cheerful loser is the winner.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
All the world loves a good loser.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
It's the good loser who finally loses out.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.
Goran Ivanisevic (1967-, Croatian tennis player)
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, British author)
People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Lee Iacocca (1924-, American businessman, former CEO of Chrysler)
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)
God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
Robert Irvine
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Randall Jacobs
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Henry Jacobsen
I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger (1943-, British-born American musician, singer)
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"!
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, American President (3rd))
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Fundraising requires both optimism and realism. Without the first, few if any gift solicitation efforts would be made. Without the second, few if any would succeed.
Howard L. Jones
What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
James Joyce (1882-1941, Irish author)
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924, German novelist, short-story writer)
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Adnan Kashoggi
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikita S. Khrushchev (1894-1971, Soviet premier)
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Victor Kiam (1926-2001, American businessman, former CEO of Remington)
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
Victor Kiam (1926-2001, American businessman, former CEO of Remington)
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, British author of Prose, Verse)
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, British author of Prose, Verse)
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
William Knudsen (American business executive)
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Ray Kroc (1902-1984, American businessman, founder of McDonalds)
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we always believe them more sincere with us than with others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.
Bobby Layne (1927-1986, American football player)
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944, Canadian humorist, economist)
Nothing is less sincere than the act of asking and giving advice. Although the asker seems to pay attention to the opinion of his friend, in reality he is just plotting to make the friend approve his the asker's own opinion and to make the friend responsible for his the asker's conduct.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Our desire and urge to be praiseworthy of others strengthens our own good qualities; and praise that is given to wit, valor, and beauty, tends to increase them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Sincerity is an openness of heart that is found in very few people. What we usually see is only an artful disguise people put on to win the confidence of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Some blames are actually praise, and some praises are actually blame.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
To refuse praise reveals a desire to be praised twice over.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
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