I don't know about you, but there are a couple of things that you still hear from time to time and they really get on your goat. 

 

I can think of two straight up:

 

1. "never confuse selling with delivery" - usually spoken by a 1980's sales person that never installed anything in his life. 

2. "only the paranoid survive" - usually spoken by some 1970's businessman who read the book by the same name.  I'd love to write a sequel to that book called "only the paranoid create really crap businesses"......... becuase they usually do.

 

I reckon the good news is - when you hear these outdated metaphors, at least you know what you are dealing with.