Management Quotes

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
— Marianne Williamson

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Competence precedes confidence.
— Rayona Sharpnack (paraphrased)

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Confidence is more important than competence. Competence can be bought. Confidence, never.
— Jeff Bracker

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Optimism without grounded reality is a dream. Grounded reality without optimism is boring. People who are emotionally tough are always saying, “There’s got to be a way.” Business is not life-threatening; it’s ego-threatening. And the people who are willing to risk their ego are emotionally tough.
— John Hamm

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The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

— Ronald Reagan

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Nothing more enhances authority than silence.
— Charles de Gaulle

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
— Lao Tzu

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Companies consolidate when they can’t compete.
— John McCain

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Most change programs inside of companies don’t work because they address content (the knowledge, structure, and data in a company) or process (the activities and behaviors), but they never address the context in which both of those elements reside. The source of people’s action isn’t what they know but how they perceive the world around them…Context can be an individual’s mind-set or the organizational culture. It includes all of the assumptions and norms that are brought to the table. Context is perception, as opposed to facts or data. People don’t go off and design their context — they just inherit it.
— Rayona Sharpnack

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
— Demosthenes

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