Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Corporation, Profit, Responsibility You May Also Like I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. By Charles F. Abbott Business, Empowering, Funny, Positive, Profit The absent are never without fault, nor those present without excuse. By Anonymous Responsibility People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence. By Henry Kissinger Accountability, Action, Empowering, Life, Responsibility It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. By Peter Ustinov Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Responsibility The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. By John Kenneth Galbraith Achievement, Business, Corporation, Executive, Salary If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? By Robert Townsend Business, Excellence, Fun, Inspirational, Profit You May Also Like from Ambrose Bierce What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. By Ambrose Bierce Bosses, Delegate, Management Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. By Ambrose Bierce Boredom Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. By Ambrose Bierce Architects, Architecture, House, Money Disobedience: the silver lining to the cloud of servitude. By Ambrose Bierce Disobedience
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. By Charles F. Abbott Business, Empowering, Funny, Positive, Profit
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence. By Henry Kissinger Accountability, Action, Empowering, Life, Responsibility
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. By Peter Ustinov Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Responsibility
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. By John Kenneth Galbraith Achievement, Business, Corporation, Executive, Salary
If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? By Robert Townsend Business, Excellence, Fun, Inspirational, Profit
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. By Ambrose Bierce Bosses, Delegate, Management
Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. By Ambrose Bierce Faith
Consult: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon. By Ambrose Bierce Approval, Consultants, Sarcastic
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