MANAGEMENT QUOTES
A selection of quotes we've collected while browsing some of the best books on management, leadership and strategy which have inspired us. :
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat.
Winston Churchill
If we did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves
Thomas Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer
Thedore Lewitt
It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.
Pierre Soulages
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.
Paul-Emile Victor
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Management, it is not an art, it is a discipline.
Noël Goutard
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
Nothing is so contagious as example.
La Rochefoucault
One must listen if one wishes to be listened to.
La Rochefoucault
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges
Isaac Newton
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
Isaac Newton
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Goethe
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
George Sand
Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
Cicero
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
The best advertising ever is a satisfied customer.
Bill Gates
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein