Saturday, February 24, 2007

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

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

(Latin Proverb)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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)

Monday, February 19, 2007

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)

Saturday, February 17, 2007

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)

Thursday, February 15, 2007

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)

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

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

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

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)