Management Quotes - Page 20

• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

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• Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Passion, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

  Blake Shelton

  Deer, Messages, Return

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

  Simon Sinek

  Impact, People, Matter

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• Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Behavior, Profit, Obligation

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• Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Skills, Done, Adequate

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• All I want to do is change the world.

  W. Clement Stone

  Life, Change, World

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• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  Taylor Swift

  Years, Careers, Choices

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• When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

  Taylor Swift

  Decision, Able, Should

  "Taylor Swift Wears the Pants". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  America, Stakes, Hotel

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Class, Lessons, Plans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Projects, Bigger

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sheep, Culture, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Despise, Bureaucrats

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• Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Stress

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• The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

  Linus Torvalds

  Children, Memories, Linux

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• To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

  Linus Torvalds

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Strong, Business

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• Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Fire

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. March 21, 2004.

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• It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Cute, Truth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV. " Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

  William Arthur Ward

  Graduation, Wise, Encouragement

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