Liquidity Matterstm
Quips and Quotes
Don’t forget to fly
the plane.
When you are up to
your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remember your original mission was
to drain the swamp.
If you find yourself
in a hole, stop digging. (Will Rogers)
The
bigger the engine, the bigger the potential for you to do something foolish
with it. (Peter Nielsen)
Money is good; more
money is better.
Cash flow never lies.
The essence of
business is risk.
Generalizations don’t
mean a damn, including this one! (Oliver
Wendell Holmes)
Conclusions can be
inconclusive.
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. (Yoda)
100% of the shots not
taken don't go in (Gretzsky).
Action overcomes fear.
Success is going from failure to failure without
a loss of enthusiasm. (Churchill)
Success is where
preparation and opportunity meet. (Bobby
Unser)
We will either find a
way or make one. (Hannibal)
It's what you do that
determines how you feel.
We are what we
repeatedly do. (Aristotle)
All writing depends on the generosity of the
reader. (Alberto Manguel)
There is no substitute
for experience.
Reading is one thing; doing is something else. (Winthrop Fisher)
Every champion has a coach.
You can't always get
what you want. (Rolling Stones)
Greed kills.
Terms are more
important than price.
Life is a negotiation.
The pendulum only
stops in the middle when the clock breaks.
Acquisitions usually
succeed only in increasing management compensation.
Business is a
combination of war and sport. (Andre Maurois)
How you play the game
pretty much determines whether you win or lose.
How you fight is how
you are.
If you don't know where you are going, you will
never get there.
The quickest distance
between two points is rarely a straight line.
A compass never points exactly north.
You cannot tell which
way the train went by looking at the track.
The easy way is always
mined.
Your banker doesn't
understand your competitor's business, either.
Illegitimae non carborundum.
Never give up. Never
give up. Never give up. (attributed to Winston Churchill in various forms)
Never bet against the
master.
Never interrupt your
enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Never sit with someone
you know.
Never negotiate with
your future boss.
If you're riding ahead
of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
(Will Rogers)
Don't look back -
something might be gaining on you. (Satchel Paige)
The trouble with the
rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Tomlin)
You can't improve what
you can't measure.
To measure is to
know. (Archimedes)
You can’t control the
wind.
What you did yesterday
won't work tomorrow.
Do not expect great
returns doing what has already been done.
Do tomorrow what
everyone else will be doing the day after tomorrow.
Why procrastinate
today when you can procrastinate tomorrow?
Why procrastinate
tomorrow when you can procrastinate today?
Do what you gotta, so you can do what you wanna. (Charles Joseph Savage, Jr.)
A spider never gets
caught in its own web.
When applying for a
job at UPS, don't send your resume via FedEx.
You must plan to
win. (Z. Ziglar)
Luck is the residue of
design. (Branch Rickey)
Identify the problem
before you go about solving it.
You cannot delegate
planning to a planner. (G. Steiner)
Planning is everything
. . . plans are nothing. (D.D. Eisenhower)
The best strategies
are overturned by great opportunities.
When you get to the fork
in the road, take it! (Berra)
Investors need a way
out.
Big companies are
small companies that succeeded.
Long-term is just a
series of short terms strung together.
Trust the process.
The process is not the
purpose.
You cannot make it
rain by washing your car.
Investor
relations is not public relations.
You cannot
revolutionize anything quietly.
If the enemy is within
range, so are you.
Market share is a zero
sum game.
Is your competitor out
to lunch or eating your lunch?
There are no born
leaders. Convert the ordinary person to your right (or, depending on your
political views, to your left).
Hierarchy is a mutual
contract between leaders and subordinates.
When your employees
(i.e., your subjects) disagree with you (i.e., you have no clothes on), what do
they tell you?
All companies claim to
be customer focused.
The customer is always
wrong.
Success is convincing
the customer that he’s wrong without losing him.
Nothing costs nothing;
everything costs something! (Even nothing costs something!)
The cost of paper
clips can’t matter (unless, of course, you manufacture paper clips).
Lowering your cost of
capital is as good as increasing earnings.
Leasing almost never
makes sense.
You can do up to four
things on the corners of your desk.
There's an 80/20 rule
for everything.
20% of your time
should solve 80% of the problem.
The key forces
affecting your business can be described in twenty-five words or less.
Who will reimburse you
for your inefficiencies?
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