Quotes by Authors - Page 207

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
P.G. Wodehouse
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Sam Goldwyn
When you've got them by their wallets their hearts and minds will follow.
Fern Naito
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
Herbert J. Muller
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Northcote Parkinson
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin Pierce Adams
You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.
James R. Cook
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Robert Heller
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F Drucker
The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
John Naisbitt
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
John Naisbitt
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
Fred S. Worthy
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Anonymous
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.
Northcote Parkinson
It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
Albert J. Nock
Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
James K. Glassman
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
Those who can do those who can't teach and those who can do neither administer.
Collet Calverley
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
John Henry Boetcker
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
Stephen Leacock
Of course Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear shallow light.
Charles Ritchie
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
Joe Wallace
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
David Lloyd George
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
Hugh MacLennan
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
Robertson Davies
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
Michael Macklem
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
Brian Moore
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power our oil areas and our timber limits.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
Hugh MacLennan
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
Chief Dan George
The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V.S. Pritchett
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
Mordecai Richler
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Richard Staines
Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Mordecai Richler
Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
William Kilbourn
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Anthony Burgess
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain his difference.
J.B. Priestley
Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
Evan Esar
Scenery here in Canada is by the mile whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur vastness and expansive views.
A. Brooker Klugh
If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.
Anonymous
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
Rudyard Kipling
The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Hugh MacLennan
Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?
Saltatha Inuit
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?
Margaret Mead
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
Paul St. Pierre
Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Kildare Dobbs
Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
Walter Stewart