Profound Business

Here’s the list of all of the pithy, profound business quotes that start off each post. All are original and published here first. That’s another way of saying they’re copyrighted. Feel free to use them, but please provide attribution.

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“I can give a Master Carpenter a hammer and he will frame a house in a week. But if I give nail guns to 100 monkeys, all I will get at the end of the week is 99 dead monkeys.”

“People good at crisis management got that way for a reason.”

“Most jobs can be done by anyone with 10 fingers and 10 toes, provided they know what to count.”

“Hide the saws before you climb out on a limb.”

“Never assume others in the organization automatically understand what you understand; develop clear tools to communicate information simply.”

“I may not live on the other side of the tracks, but I can still hear the train.”

“The most important words in any meeting are not in the first sentence, they are in the last sentence.”

“You still have to ask the question, even when you think you know the answer.”