Business Quotes - Page 37

• Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

  Albert Einstein

  People, Way, Management

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• The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

  Phil Harding

  Two, Greed, Way

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• Yelling is a form of publishing

  Margaret Atwood

  Yelling, Management, Economics

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• Data is great, but strategy is better

  Steven Sinofsky

  Data, Management, Strategy

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• As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

  Ken Blanchard

  Important, Management, Economics

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• Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

  Octavius Black

  People, Achievement, Credit

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• It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo

  Phil Harding

  Management, Economics, Accepting

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• A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Generations, Succeed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Perfection, Creative

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• We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

  Richard Branson

  People, Good Times, Management

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• Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

  Nigel Crouch

  Mean, Management, Economics

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• Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leader, Different, Management

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• Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

  John P. Kotter

  Management, Economics, Produce

  John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• People work in the system. Management creates the system

  W. Edwards Deming

  Work, People, Management

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• The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

  Carlos Ghosn

  People, Giving, Enemy

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• In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

  Ron Dennis

  Team, Simple, Together

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Data, Needs, Action

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• It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

  Harold Geneen

  Management, Economics, Standing Out

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Leadership, Quality, Management

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

  Mark Carney

  Useless, Management, Finance

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• Happiness does not require an expanding economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Doe, Management, 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

  Real, Bail, Earth

  "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

  Believe, Recovery, Mean

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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

  Skills, Ideas, People

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

  Ben Clarke

  Opportunity, Management, Sustainability

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