Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
People get the closest to being perfect when they are filling in an application.
—STANLEY RANDALL
The most expensive words in business are: ‘We’ve always done it that way.’
—CATHERINE DEVRYE
There are some men who, in a fifty-fifty proposition, insist on getting the hyphen too.
—LAURENCE J. PETER
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend.
—SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
—J.K. GALBRAITH
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
—HENRY MINTZBERG
Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.
—IRENE PETER
The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.
—LAURENCE J. PETER
The real executive will never ask who’s right but what’s right.
—CARL A. POLLOCK
Nothing improves a joke more than telling it to employees.
—TERRY MARCHAL
Everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see it’s not the answer.
—JIM CARREY
As a mime artist, you can earn your money working for radio, but then you will want to do other things.
—PIERRE LÉGARÉ
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
—J.K. GALBRAITH
Doubtless there are things money won’t buy, but I cannot think of any of them at the moment.
—RICHARD J. NEEDHAM
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
—T. HARV EKER
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
—BILL JONES
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
—W.J. CAMERON
Retirement is…a shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.
—SAUL BELLOW
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
There are three categories of people in industry—the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what happened.
—O.A. BATTISTA
Some doctors practice acupuncture in order to pick up some pin money.
—JOHN S. CROSBIE
The only problems money can solve are money problems.
—LAURENCE J. PETER
He who says that working for honour is as despicable as working for money, is a hundred percent right.
—JEAN-MARIE POUPART
It is not important to have a lot of money, but to have enough.
—PIERRETTE VINCENT
It is difficult enough to earn money. It is even more difficult to keep it.
—ARTHUR HAILEY
If money doesn’t bring happiness, then the government does everything in their power to make us happy.
—DANIEL LEMIRE
I love walking up to complete strangers and handing them a $50 bill. The look on their face is priceless, except for the $50 part.
—SCOTT GRIFFIN
To borrow money, big money, you have to wear your hair in a certain way, walk in a certain way, and have about you an air of solemnity and majesty—something like the atmosphere of a Gothic cathedral.
—STEPHEN LEACOCK
To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
—EDGAR BRONFMAN
Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.
—ELIZABETH ARDEN
Some men have more brains than money, but they can’t prove it.
—O.A. BATTISTA
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
—O.A. BATTISTA
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
—JOHN HOLMES
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause.
—PHYLLIS MCGINLEY
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
—CHARLOTTE WHITTON
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
—PETER C. NEWMAN
The trouble with sitting on top of the world is that our planet is so unsteady.
—O.A. BATTISTA