A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006.

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“A bargain is something you don’t need at a price you can’t resist”
“A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee”
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline” (management aphorism)
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow”
“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure”
“A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty”
“A shady business never yields a sunny life”
“A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong”
“Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter”
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there”
“Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often”
“Adventures in Heroism” (Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum)
“Advertising helps raise the standard of living by raising the standard of longing”
“Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on”
“Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it”
“Always Open” (nyc.gov)
“An advertising agency is 85 per cent confusion and 15 per cent commission”
“An Educated Consumer Is Our Best Customer” (Syms Clothing)
“An expert is a man who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy”
“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less”
“Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop”
“Architecture is a great profession, but a horrible business”
“Arrogance is ignorance matured”
“Back to the drawing board” (starting over after failure)
“BOSS spelled backwards is double-SOB”
“Bring to the table” (to contribute something)
“Buy cheap, buy twice”
“Buy the best and cry only once”
“Calling All Men,” “Select, Don’t Settle,” “No Bunk. No Junk. No Imitations” (Barney’s)
“Chalk it up to experience”
“Changing Lives Since 1812” (New York City Mission Society)
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow”
“China makes and the world takes” (business saying)
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”
“Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men”
“Competition is a sin” (Rockefeller?)
“Consulting: If you’re not part of the solution, there’s good money in prolonging the problem”
“Consumers are statistics; customers are people”
“Creativity is the residue of time wasted” (Einstein?)
“Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude”
“Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when we don’t want to do it”
“Do I look like a freakin’ people person?”
“Do today what others won’t, so you can do tomorrow what others can’t”
“Does Macy’s tell Gimbel’s?”
“Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted”
“Don’t expect what you don’t inspect” (management adage)
“Don’t mourn—organize” (labor slogan)
“Don’t send a boy to do a man’s job”
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”
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