Management Quotes - Page 30

• If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Jewelry, Knows

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• Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

  Michael Porter

  Risk, Strategy, Function

  Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”

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• I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

  Trevor Nunn

  Believe, Imagination, Planning

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• Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

  Frank Knight

  Sleep, Waste, Time Management

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• I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Giving, Focus

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• At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Mean, Organization

  "Sheryl Sandberg: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

  Solomon

  Anger, Cities, Spirit

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• The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

  Solomon

  Anger, Men, Glory

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• At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

  Evan Davis

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

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• Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Knowledge, Milk, Cows

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• Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

  Tony Benn

  Team, Mean, Essence

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• I've actually not read any books on time management.

  Elon Musk

  Book, Time Management

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

  Richard Branson

  Names, Reputation, Brands

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• There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

  Steve Ballmer

  Knowledge, Learning, Iphone

  "More Ballmer Madness: "There's No Chance that the iPhone is Going to Get any significant market share" by Charlie Sorrel, www.wired.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Stupid, Knowledge

  "Microsoft’s Lost Decade". Vanity Fair, www.vanityfair.com. August 2012.

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• Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, Fixing, Transformation

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• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Reality, Goal, Culture

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• The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Giving, Joy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

  Ted Nelson

  Rights, Trying, World

  "Project Xanadu" description on Ted Nelson's Home Page, xanadu.com.au. November 17, 1998.

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• As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Stronger, Willpower

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• I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

  Justin Guarini

  Bigs, Said, Sat

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• We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money.

  George Soros

  Style, Trying, Use

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goal, Planning, Aim

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

  Sherman Kent

  Estimating, Planning, Knows

  "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).

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