I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Murphy's commerce laws: Billing Statements do not provide 'Actual Posting Dates' They reflect 'Accurate Posting Dates'. This was contained within a reply from a Retail Credit Account Analyst of a...
Murphy's commerce laws: This is from my own experience over the past 50+ years!
Murphy's commerce laws: If your Check-Book and Bank-Balance Sheet agree... Re-Do-It... You Goofed Up.
Murphy's commerce laws: Any item that you want to purchase from a catalog will always be out of stock at the time you want to buy it.
Murphy's commerce laws: When you stand at your counter for hours on end and then go to break, that's when the customer comes and rings the bell for help.
Murphy's commerce laws: The simpler and quicker your transaction, the more complex and time-consuming the transaction of the person immediately ahead of you in the line.
Murphy's commerce laws: The number of open service windows at banks, post offices, airline counters, etc... always equals [n/2 - m], n being the total number of windows and m being a random number...
Murphy's commerce laws: Assaf's Laws of Lines.
Murphy's commerce laws: When a customer says: It's perfect except... you know it will be necessary to rebuild the whole piece.
Murphy's commerce laws: If the salesperson says, all you have to do is... you know you're in trouble.
Murphy's commerce laws: The more complicated the job is the less time and useful information you will be given.
Murphy's commerce laws: One learns at least as much about management from poor managers as from good ones.
Murphy's commerce laws: Inverse Rule of Contracts: the smaller the dollar amount of a contract the longer it will take to negotiate.
Murphy's commerce laws: Ament's Second Law of Corporate Survival: Duck.
Murphy's commerce laws: Ament's First Law of Corporate Survival: when you see the shit is about to hit the fan, shut your mouth.
Murphy's commerce laws: One's willingness to do something is inversely proportional to: a) the need for it to be done , b) the number of people who are relying on that person to do it.
Murphy's commerce laws: Procedures should not be used as a substitute for thought.
Murphy's commerce laws: The quality of workmanship of any given object is inversely proportional to how well it works.
Murphy's commerce laws: The quality of workmanship of any given object is inversely proportional to how useful it is.
Murphy's commerce laws: Excess of analysis causes paralysis.