“Executive
ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
John G. Pollard
“Never tell
people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity.”
General George s. Paton
“You’re only as
good as the people you hire.”
Ray Kroc
“Corporation: An
ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual
responsibility”.
Ambrose Bierce
“There is one
rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at
the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible”.
Henry Ford
“Asking who ought
to be the boss is like asking who ought to be the tenor in a quartet. Obviously,
the man who can sing tenor”.
Henry Ford
“It is not the
employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer
who pays the wages.”
Henry Ford
“You can’t build
a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
Henry Ford
“When you hire
people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.”
R.H. Grant
“Consumers are
statistics. Customers are people.”
Stanley Marcus
“As long as
people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”
Dick Clavett
“ Top management
must know how good or bad employees’ working conditions are. They must eat in
the employees’ restaurants, see whether the food is well cooked, visit the
washroom and lavatories. If they are not good enough for those in charge, they
are not good enough for anyone.”
Lord Sieff
“The concept is
interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea
must be feasible.”
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred
Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to
found Federal Express Corp.)
“Distrust any
enterprise that requires new clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The best
executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I like thinking
big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”
Donald Trump
“In any great
organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right
alone.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“To get something
done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are
absent.”
Robert Copeland
“Whenever you see
a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
Peter Drucker
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