• I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 94 reads

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• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 168 reads

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• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 125 reads

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• If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 28 reads

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• If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 11 reads

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• If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 16 votes · 13 reads

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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 84 reads

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 138 reads

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• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 20 reads

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• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 199 reads

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 28 reads

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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 191 reads

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• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 2 reads

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• Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 50 reads

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• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 100 reads

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• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 86 reads

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 103 reads

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 129 reads

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• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 52 reads

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• There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 16 reads

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• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 108 reads

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• Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 42 reads

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• To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 147 reads

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 140 reads

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 163 reads

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• Who can direct when all pretend to know?

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 48 reads

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• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 182 reads

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