
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Author: Alexander Pope
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Author: Dylan Thomas
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
Author: Franklin P. Jones
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Author: Anatole France

A fellow had just been
hired as the new
CEO of a large high tech
corporation. The CEO who was stepping down
met with him privately and
presented him with three numbered
envelopes. "Open these if you run up
against a problem you don't think
you can solve," he said. Well,
things
went along pretty
smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn
and he was really
catching a lot of heat. About at his wit's end, he
remembered the
envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first
envelope. The
message read, "Blame your predecessor." The new CEO
called a
press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the
previous
CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press -- and Wall Street
--
responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was
soon
behind him. About a year later, the company was again
experiencing a
slight dip in sales, combined with serious product pro
blems. Having
learned from his previous experience, the CEO
quickly opened the second
envelope. The message read, "Reorganize." This
he did, and the
company
quickly rebounded. After several
consecutive profitable quarters, the
company once again fell on difficult
times. The CEO went to his office,
closed the door and opened the
third envelope. The message said,
"Prepare
three envelopes."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
American businessman was at a pier in a
small coastal
Mexican village when a small boat with just one
fisherman
docked. Inside the small boat were several large
yellow-fin
tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of
his
fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied
only a little while.
The American then asked why didn't he
stay out longer and
catch more fish?
The Mexican said he had
enough to support his family's
immediate needs.
The American
then asked the Mexican how he spent the rest of
his time.
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little,
play with my
children, take siesta with my wife, Maria,
stroll into the village
each evening where I sip wine and
play guitar with my amigos. I have
a full and busy life,
senor."
The American scoffed, "I am a
Harvard MBA and could help
you. You should spend more time fis
hing and, with the
proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds
from the
bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you
would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your
catch
to a middleman you would sell directly to the
processor, eventually
opening your own cannery. You would
control the product, processing
and distribution.
"You would need to leave this small coastal
fishing village
and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC
where you
will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican
fisherman asked, "But senor, how long will this
all take?"
To
which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then,
senor?" asked the Mexican.
The American laughed, and said, "That's
the best part! When
the time is right, you would announce an IPO and
sell your
company stock to the public. You'll become very rich,
you
would make millions!"
"Millions, senor?" replied t
he Mexican. "Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would
retire. Move to a small
coastal fishing village where you would sleep
late, fish a
little, play with your kids, take siesta with your
wife,
stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip
wine
and play your guitar with your amigos."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
A young executive was leaving the office late
one evening, when he finds the CEO standing in front of a shredder
with
a piece of paper in his hand.
"Listen," said the CEO,
"this is a very sensitive and important
document here, and my
secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this
thing work for me?"
"Certainly," the young executive says. He turns the machine on,
inserts the paper, and presses the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" says the CEO as his paper disappeared inside
the
machine. "I just need one copy."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
There are three beggars begging on Wall
Street.
The first beggar wrote "Beggar" on his broken cup. He
received $10.00
after one day.
The next day, the second beggar
wrote "Beggar.com" on his cup. After
one day, he received hundreds
of thousands of dollars and an offer to
float an IPO on
NASDAQ.
The following day, the third beggar wrote "e-Beg" on his cup.
Microsoft, IBM, and HP sent corporate vice-presidents to talk to him
about
strategic alliances and offered him free hardware consultancy.
In
addition, it was reported on CNBC that e-Beg uses 95% Oracle
technology and
that I2 announced the launch of BegTradeMatrix; a b2b
industry portal
offering supply chain integration in the beggar
community.
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
An
elderly fisherman wrote to a mail
order house the following:
"Please send me one of those gasoline
engines for my boat you show on
page 438, and if it's any good, I'll
send you a check."
In a short time he received the following
reply: "Please send check.
If it's any good, we'll send the
engine."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes