“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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