<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Finance and economics - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15988]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15979]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the economy, stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15981]]></link><description><![CDATA[By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15986]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15955]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15957]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15946]]></link><description><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15947]]></link><description><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15947</guid></item></channel></rss>