Management Quotes - Page 18

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Peter Drucker

  Senior, Business, Mistake

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.9, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Cost, Literature, Resistance

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

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• The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Moving On, Business

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• It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Business, Women, Learning

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• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

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• Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Materialism

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• One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

  Bill Ford

  Growing Up, Believe, Top Management

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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  Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Business, Ignorant, Littering

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• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Business, Organization

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Ambition, School, Training

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• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Training, Example

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• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Yale, League, Form

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• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

  Andre Gide

  Communication, Learning, Knowledge

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• The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

  Germaine Greer

  Important, Fertility, Function

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  Gary Hamel

  Top Management, Belief, Renewal

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• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  Gary Hamel

  Innovation, Rewards, Advantage

  "The Magic of Middle Management" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Control Of Your Life, Keys

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Way

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.168, Lulu.com

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Boss, Might

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

  Hal Holbrook

  Thinking, Discipline, Resistance

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