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Management6 quotes
There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · 1717Fuck management. — Ms. Perkins · 2014Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes? — Oscar Martinez · 2009If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are. — Soichiro Honda · 1982A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management. — Akio Morita · 1986There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made-at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973
Business2 quotes
If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are. — Soichiro Honda · 1982A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management. — Akio Morita · 1986
Leadership2 quotes
There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · 1717Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes? — Oscar Martinez · 2009
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made-at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973
Employees1 quote
If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are. — Soichiro Honda · 1982
Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes? — Oscar Martinez · 2009
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management. — Akio Morita · 1986
The man1 quote
Fuck management. — Ms. Perkins · 2014
Timing1 quote
There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · 1717