Business Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
Thinking metaphorically is the precursor to the creative innovation required for today's wealth creation.
Each business success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
He's got a wonderful head for money. There's a long slit on the top.
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the situation is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.
The any-other-business boardroom discussion developed into a heavyweight artillery exchange of egos.
Claude, the department's grand fromage, had a desk the size of a badminton court.
Bailiffs with bad breath walk up the driveway like blood clots rising up the throat.
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a gang with guns.
Borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
With a toothy smile and oily logic he offered me my old job back, his manner like an audition for the part of the devil.
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
In business you adapt and transmogrify as rapidly as you can, or you will be left stranded, like the last dinosaur by the last warm lake on the last continent that the ice-age has yet to reach.
We are fantastically busy working hard to have leisure and do nothing; we fight a war to create harmony and peace.
Individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever', when really the fever has us.
This chap implies that borrowing money to buy a house and rent it out is the E=MC2 of minted money-making schemes.
People in business (Branson, Sugar, Dragon's Den) are trying to be entertainers, while entertainers are trying so hard to be businessmen.
If a punishing work environment is a prerequisite for success in your field, could it be that you're in a game not worth winning?
An infectious greed disease of irrational exuberance seems to have gripped the business community.
American finance is like an guy who loses his job and instead of getting another job, he buys everything on a credit card and then shows his wife his credit bills and says 'look, honey, how great we're doing'.
Your business services are as useful as a barber's shop on the steps of a guillotine.
I'm working as hard as the fire brigade on Guy Fawkes Night.
We are selling our cows and chicken to buy milk. Selling income producing assets to enjoy current consumption.
The supervisor is like an egg: if you keep him in hot water long enough he gets hard boiled.
To increase business sales we must be like an ice-hockey player and skate where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
I don't like to hire consultants. They're like castrated bulls – all they can do is advise.
People use statistics as drunkards use lampposts — more for support than illumination.
Anyone who plays the stock market not as an insider is like someone who buys cows in moonlight.
In a large company, the chief executive's salary is no market award for achievement, but frequently a warm personal gesture by the individual himself.
Potential house buyers have had their poles in the water searching for signs of a bottoming out of the market.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich.
Nobody could ever simplify or divide what Toby says; it's as though he speaks in prime numbers.
Some earrings are cheaper than a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long.
Statistics are like prisoners under torture: with the right tweak you can get them to confess anything.
Our CEO demonstrates qualities of leadership, i.e. is tall, has a loud voice and the patronizing bonhomie of a public schoolboy.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Barry's been sacked more times than Rome.
Working in that office was like going daily to the dentist to have root canal surgery on the same tooth.
It is not work that kills men: it is worry. Work is healthy. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolutions that destroys machinery, but the friction.
We are in an industry of sequoias and acorns.
A 'rights issue' as saleable as a carton of sour milk.
Our market share isn't even a slice in the industry pie-chart.
A recession is like an unfortunate love affair. It’s a lot easier to talk your way in than it is to talk your way out
Overheads walk on two legs.
Employee-of-the-month is an example of how you can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
Trading without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark, you know you are doing it but nobody else does.
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