Business One-Liners Pt. 5

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth.
A penny saved has not been spent.
A penny saved is an economic breakthrough.
A penny saved is ridiculous.
A problem cannot be solved using the same level of thinking that created it. (In other words, if you screw it up, you can't fix it.)
A real person has two reasons for doing anything... a good reason and the real reason.
A short cut is the longest distance between two points.
A short line outside a building becomes a long line inside. 

If It Business Lines

• If it looks too good to be true, it is too good to be true.
• If it says "one size fits all," it doesn't fit anyone.
• If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
• If it works, don't fix it!
• If idiots could fly, this world would be an airport.
• If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault.
• If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
• If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.
• If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten.
• If only one price can be obtained for a quotation, the price will be unreasonable.

Business One Liners - O

• Old programmers never die, they just abend.
• On a beautiful day like this, it's hard to believe anybody can be unhappy; but we will work on it.
• On successive charts of the same organization, the number of boxes will never decrease.
• One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.
• One good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
• One of the greatest labor-saving inventions today is tomorrow.
• One of those days? I have one of those lives.
• One seventh of your life is spent on Mondays.