It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

(Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)

(Latin Proverb)

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."

(Peter F. Drucker)

If you want to build a ship...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it.

(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands)

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

(Peter Drucker)

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

(Peter Drucker)

The most efficient way to produce anything is...

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)

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

(Agha Hasan Abedi)

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned...

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

(Steve Case)

One advantage of marriage...

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.

(Judith Viorst)

The best executive is...

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

"Management is the art of getting things done through people."

(Mary Parker Follet, 1868–1933)

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

(Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948)

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

(David Geffen)

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

(David Geffen)

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

(Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880)

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

(Aristotle, 384-322 BC, philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great)

Never judge someone by...

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

(Cynthia Heimel)

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for.

(Peter F. Drucker, Management Guru)