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“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
Colin Powell
“Good managers have a bias for action.”
Thomas J. Peters
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
Peter F. Drucker
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.”
David Ogilvy
“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do / they always reach.”
Lee Iacocca
“"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.”
Robert Townsend
“Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.”
W. Edwards Deming
“Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.”
Thornton Wilder
“The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they le”
Jack Welch
“Where is our usual manager of mirth?What revels are in hand? Is there no play,To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?”
William Shakespeare
