Business Jokes

Acheson's Rule Of The Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. - Dean Acheson


Action's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.


Adler's Distinction: Language is all that separates us from the lower animals, and from the bureaucrats.


Advertising Rule: In writing a patent-medicine advertisement, first convince the reader that he has the disease he is reading about; secondly, that it is curable.


Air Force Inertia Axiom: Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.


Allen's Distinction: The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. - Woody Allen


Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.


Alden's Laws: (1) Giving away baby clothes and furniture is the major cause of pregnancy. (2) Always be backlit. (3) Sit down whenever possible.


Andrea's Admonition: Never bestow profanity upon a driver who has wronged you. If you think his window is closed and he can't hear you, it isn't and he can.


Churchill's Commentary on Man: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.