1. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte
2. “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
—George Burns
3. “By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
—Robert Frost
4. “Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.”
—Robert Townsend
5. “The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.”
—Bette Midler
6. “We were hoping to build a small, profitable company; and of course, what we’ve done is build a large, unprofitable company.”
—Jeff Bezos
7. “Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.”
—Steve Maraboli
8. “I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.”
—Douglas Adams
9. “In the business world, an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something, and the switchboard operator knows everything.”
—Harold Coffin
10. “If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising, then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.”
—Will Rogers
11. “I don’t want any Yes men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth—even if it costs him his job.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
12. “Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.”
—Max Asnas
13. “Be glad that you’re greedy. The national economy would collapse if you weren’t.”
—Mignon McLaughlin
14. “Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
—Sloan Wilson
15. “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
—Isaac Asimov
16. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
—Thomas Edison
Stephanie
Stephanie is the Marketing Director at Talkroute and has been featured in Forbes, Inc, and Entrepreneur as a leading authority on business and telecommunications.
Stephanie is also the chief editor and contributing author for the Talkroute blog helping more than 100k entrepreneurs to start, run, and grow their businesses.