10 Business One Liners F-G

1. For every problem, there is a neat, plain solution...and it is always wrong.
2. For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision.
3. Four-wheel-drive just means getting stuck in more inaccessible places.
4. Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it.
5. Free time which unexpectedly becomes available will be wasted.
6. Freud's 23rd law: ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.
7. Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
8. Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.
9. Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.
10. Geologists do not dress for success unless they are trying to convince others that they are going on interviews. 

Business Laws Continued

Hugh Downs' Four Rules for Investigating the Universe:
Rule 1 - When confronted with an apparent infinite or infinitely repeating pattern, expect some variant that keeps it from being infinite.
Rule 2 - When all investigation supports Rule 1, look for a situation which violates it.
Rule 3 - Be prepared for an infinite oscillation between Rules 1 and 2.
Rule 4 - Apply Rule 1.
Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
Ducharme's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
Ducharme's Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
Estridge's Law: No matter how large and standardized the marketplace is, IBM can redefine it.
Fett's Law: Never replicate a successful experiment. 

Business One - Liners 80

• It's Not My Job!
• It's not hard to meet expenses; they are everywhere.
• It's not how good your work is, it's how well you explain it.
• It's not the work that gets me down, it's the coffee breaks.
• It's out of my control.
• Job placement: Telling your boss what he can do with your job.
• Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy". Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.

Junk mail arrives the day it was sent.
Just about the time when you think you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Just about the time when your income gets to the point where food prices don't matter, calories do.