Management Quotes - Page 21

• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  Andrew Weil

  Health, Simple, Years

  "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.

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• All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.'

  Harvey Weinstein

  Thinking, Self, Issues

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• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Weed, Jobs

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• You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Two, Long

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• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Power, Evil

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Engineering, Tools, Woe

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• It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

  Susan Wojcicki

  Children, Home, Richness Of Life

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• The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

  Dick Wolf

  Different, Agendas, Tables

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• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Lost Love, Games

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• Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

  Steve Wozniak

  Greatness, People, Leader

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• Time management is the mantra of my life.

  Vir Das

  Time Management, Mantras

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• Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Expansion, Levels, Requirements

  FaceBook post by Douglas Rushkoff from Aug 23, 2013

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• Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fall, Technology, Airports

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• i would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, New Year, Cancer

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.60, Random House

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Life, Inspiration

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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  Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.296, Northwestern University Press

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• The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Top Management, Problem, Workers

  "Knowledge Building Through Sensemaking: Connecting the Dots: Information Overload: What to do with all of the New Information". Book by Melanie M. Minarik, p. 13, 2008.

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• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Dream

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• Employers are like horses — they require management.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Employers

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• We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Our Actions, 7 Habits

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Learning

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