Management Quotes - Page 31

• Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

  Robert McNamara

  Business, Important, Economics

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• If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Leadership, Business, Quality

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• Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

  Gary Hirshberg

  Business, Quality, Compromise

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• Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

  Pope John Paul II

  Education, Business, Men

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Human Work”

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• Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

  Mark Carney

  Business, Useless, Finance

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• Happiness does not require an expanding economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Doe, Economics

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• We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, Real, Bail

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at the University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Believe, Recovery

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• The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a genuine understanding not only of the anxieties of their employees but of all taxpayers. Those chief executives who succeed will be those who imbue in their businesses very simple, commonsense standards of decency

  Robert Peston

  Running, Business, Simple

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• Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

  Ben Clarke

  Business, Opportunity, Sustainability

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is not just a question of values and moral duty. It is about our economy's capacity to sustain itself

  David Miliband

  Business, Environmental, Pioneers

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• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

  David Miliband

  Business, Responsibility, Rights

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• We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

  Hiroyuki Watanabe

  Business, Years, Growth

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• Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

  Malcolm Brinded

  Business, Issues, Long

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• Good environmentalism is good economics

  Barber Conable

  Business, Economics, Environmentalism

  Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

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• We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

  James Dyson

  Business, Trying, Culture

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• For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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

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• Never invest in a business you can't understand

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Buffets

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• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

  George Monbiot

  Business, Reality, Ideas

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• Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

  Toby Robins

  Business, Environmental, Climate

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• The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

  Dave Hampton

  Business, People, Magic

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• Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

  John P. Kotter

  Business, Economics, Revenue

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• I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

  Richard Branson

  Business, World, Economics

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