Consultants Quotes - Page 2

• I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Snakes, Words Of Wisdom

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• A consultant is only as good as their last project.

  Jon Taffer

  Lasts, Projects

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

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• Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Dirty, Hands, People

  Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

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• The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

  Burton J. Hendrick

  Brother, Physicians, Firsts

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• I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

  Charlie Munger

  Vipers, Shirts, Compensation

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

  Rob Zerban

  Hate, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

  Rob Urbinati

  Jobs, Home, Long

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

  Duff McDonald

  Giving, Strategy, Should

  Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications

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• People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.

  Kirstie Alley

  People, Jenny, Wells

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• Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

  Scott Raab

  Organization

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• Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  School, Bankers, Management

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• General consultant to mankind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mankind

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• An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opposites, Journalism, Journalist

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.9, Random House

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• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Fans, Moguls

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• It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

  Ralph Nader

  Leaving, Democracy, Limits

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

  James Carville

  Thinking, People, Political

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• I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

  John Hench

  People, Details, Attention

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• Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, White, Wells

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Work, Admitting, Helping

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.

  Bill Capodagli

  Jobs, Roles, Exceptional

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

  Kevin Kelly

  Thinking, Organization, Mind

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• Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Long, Style

  "Warren Buffett On Todd Combs, Berkshire's New Hedge Fund Superstar" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Care, Amnesty

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

  Christopher Myers

  Mom, Issues, Differences

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• The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

  Seth

  Real, Mind, Want

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