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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SIN 5
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
Boone T. Pickens (American businessman, chairman of Mesa Petroleum)
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Titus Maccius Plautus (BC 254-184, Roman comic poet)
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, "There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life."
Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845, American poet, critic, short-story writer)
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
Fundraising is not an event; it is a process.
Edgar D. Powell
Fundraising opportunities will continue to exist throughout the next century. Those opportunities will equal or exceed all current experience or presently held future expectations.
Edgar D. Powell
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998, British statesman)
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Matthew Prior (1664-1721, British diplomat, poet)
We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.
Lew Pritchett (American business executive)
Those who know how to praise also know how to lie.
Albanian Proverb
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian origin)
If a man gives you a basket to carry water, it means that he hates you.
Belizean Proverb
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
It is easy to open a store -- the hard part is keeping it open!
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
The person who has never been cheated cannot be a good businessman.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Many people love to praise right and do wrong.
Danish Proverb (Sayings of Danish origin)
Cursing the weather is never good farming.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
Praise the sea but keep on land.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
There is one who kisses, and the other who offers the cheek.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
All sins cast long shadows.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
Eat and drink with your relatives, but do business with strangers.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
The best way to get praise is to die.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
Advertising is the mother of trade.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Those who want to sing will always find a song.
Norwegian Proverb (Sayings of Norwegian origin)
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish origin)
Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
Piers Paul Read
Honey, I forgot to duck.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004, American President (40th))
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Peter Rena
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Jules Renard (1864-1910, French author, dramatist)
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Charles Revson (American businessman, chairman of Revlon)
The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
Meshulam Riklis
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
You have no choice about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley (1945-, American basketball coach)
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
Steven J. Ross
Fundraising is not a right -- it is a privilege and we must always honor it as such.
Henry A. Rosso
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: Why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.
Kyle Rote Jr.
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Sir Nathan Rothschild (1910-1982, British administrator)
Call the bald man, "Boy;" make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Shultz
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to a statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust (BC 86-34, Roman historian)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Jewish Saying
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr (1916-, American journalist)
It doesn't matter what you believe, just so long as you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-, American cartoonist, creator of "Peanuts")
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-, American cartoonist, creator of "Peanuts")
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American industrialist, businessman)
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
T. L. Scrutton
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
Cecil J. Sharpe (1859-1924, British collector of folk songs and dances)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586, British author, courtier)
The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson (1947-, American football player)
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith (1723-1790, Scottish economist)
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.
Byron Caldwell Smith
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Dean Smith (1931-, American college basketball coach)
Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
Roger Smith (American business executive)
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
Stephen Sondheim (1930-, American composer, lyricist)
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Charles Sorenson
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
St. Basil (329-379, Bishop of Caesarea)
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