Consultants Quotes

• Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

  Andrew Thomas

  Giving, Advice, Essentials

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• A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

  Andrew Thomas

  Thinking, Giving, Salt

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

  Bertrand Meyer

  Empowering, Roles, Indispensable

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Long, Giving, Perspective

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Work, Communication

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• Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, People, Watches

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• True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

  Simon Sinek

  Strength, Being Strong, Courage

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• You can do anything, but not everything.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Powerful

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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Asking Questions, Ignorant Masses, Asking Too Many Questions

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• A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.

  Mark Russell

  Guy, Making Love, Different

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• A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

  Charles Handy

  Helping Others, People, Want

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Mind, Euthanasia

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• It takes courage to be the author of your life.

  Nicholas Lore

  Life, Courage, Bravery

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Waste

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

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• My primary consultant is myself.

  Donald Trump

  Primaries

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Roles, Projects, Not Sure

  "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

  Steve McConnell

  Opportunity, Missing, Use

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education

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• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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• [Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.

  David Krieger

  Morning, Perspective, May

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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