One-liners for Business Failures

In business, sometimes you have to have a sense of humor, learn from your mistakes and move on.

We all screw things up every now and then. We might try really hard with a project but ultimately our results kinda suck. Here is a frank and funny one liner to ask yourself and your team after a business related misfire.

“Are we polishing horse manure?” –it’s never going to shine no matter how hard you polish it! Translation – stop polishing!

Another way of describing a project that in reality is a failure…

“Sometimes, you gotta call the baby ugly.” There is one exception with use of this one-liner… any time there is a real baby involved!

In business, sometimes you have to have a sense of humor, learn from your mistakes and move on.

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