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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is read more
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant read more
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because read more
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
