“Ambition is for people who don’t have enough sense to be lazy”
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "Ambition a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be…
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "Ambition a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be…
"Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky" has been frequently cited as an American proverb and infrequently cited as an African-American proverb. The saying means that an ambitious…
"Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action" is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. "Ambition is the first step on the ladder of…
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in" is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has been credited to New York Knicks…
"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise" is an old English proverb. English Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) wrote in 1596: "One acre of…
Comedian Fred Allen (1894-1956) wrote in Treadmill to Oblivion (1954): "To me, an advertising agency is 85 per cent confusion and 15 per cent commission." The quotation has been…
"An apology is a promise to do things differently next time, and to keep the promise" is a saying that has been printed on several images. The apology saying comes from Hunter × Hunter,…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Answers.comWhat is an auditor a watchdog or a bloodhound?The company's internal auditor is a watchdog, making sure rules are being followed. An external auditor is a…
Syms is a friendly clothing store on East 54th Street and Park Avenue. Syms advertised for years that it had a markdown system, not "sales." If a product didn't sell, its price was…
There are many electrician puns. A "Wire you insulate?" joke has been cited in print since at least 1890. 21 July 1890, Buffalo (NY) Courier, pg. 5, col. 1:Said the electrician's…
Many people do not like to do work late on Friday afternoon. This was posted on Twitter by Cilla on Friday, May 21, 2021, and quickly went viral (about 200,000 likes within 24 hours): "An…
"An executive is a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right" was written by American writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbart (1856-1915) in 1907. The jocular quotation has been…
"An expert is a man who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy" is a jocular statement showing that experts can be technically correct in small matters and yet…
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a narrow field" is a jocular definition of an expert that has been printed on many images. The quotation has been…
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less" (also, "A specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less") is a saying that became popular in 1926.…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Google News Archive27 August 1959, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), "Shop With Sue," pg. 8, col. 6 ad:. Colleague — Someone called in at the last minute to…
"An idea is a dream until you write it down, and then it's a goal" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "It's a dream until you write it down. Then it's a…
"An optimist is a person who has no trouble seeing the bright side of your problems" was printed in the Green Bay (WI) Press-Gazette on June 25, 1983, by American humor columnist Doug…
"An optimist laughs to forget and a pessimist forgets to laugh" was cited in print in an American newspaper from July 1922. No author was credited. "The optimist laughs to forget,…
A medical joke about an X-ray technician is: "Did you hear about the X-ray technician who married one of his patients? Everybody wondered what he saw in her." A form of the joke has been…