Businessavante commented on the following stories on BizSugar
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"Hollywood has made too much money off of insult humor to be offended - look at "Fat" Jack Leonard, Don Rickles, the Dean Martin "Roasts" (when being drunk was still funny - before MADD), the Jeffersons, and just about every sit-com since. The business world - the real world - is another question. I've found that so many people are in fact humorless (especially at work), that it's a big risk. Either they just never laugh, or their thinking what an idiot you are when you're trying to liven things up. I still miss Benny Hill - who can forget him as the middle-aged woman saying "Mrs.Pissi River"?? businessavante "How to Be a Successful ‘Design Businessman’
"In the High Renaissance, the top niche for artists & architects was to be a Master of Designo. They weren't painters of sculptors first (give a monkey a brush, and he might paint), but genius designers - exactly conceiving the total image, poses, etc. businessavante"Money Is the Root of All Evil - Entrepreneur Training for Entrepreneurs
"I always thought it referred to the 2nd part in the article, Ross - what some people will do to get money, rather than the 1st part, jealousy. What about the bit about a rich man having less chance getting to heaven than threading a camel through the eye of a needle - now that's a trick! businessavante"When is the Customer Not Always Right?
"Having worked several Christmases, I learned the hard way that some people walk in itching for a fight - they intend to ruin someone's day. If you're the one standing there (or on the phone), lucky you! Nothing anyone does is going to satisfy them, so why sweat it? businessavante"Subscribe
Thank God For Control Freaks!
"From personal experience I'd add physicians, attorneys, and the clergy on the list of Control Freak jobs. And politicians! businessavante"