Quotes and Some Thoughts

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould

The sad truth is today  half or more of the workers are gleefully attacking the others without getting a thing in return other than getting roundly FUCKED!!
 
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Don Marquis
 
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen
 
Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen
 
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

A variation on the "Peter Principle".
 
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
Ron Livingston
 
I have found this last quote to be true from personal experience.

Mark Twain Quotes

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
— Mark Twain

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
— Mark Twain 

 "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

— Mark Twain 

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
— Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain