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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
Sep 10, 2025
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Real management is developing people through work.
Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
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.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
I came up with this idea to create an app. And the premise of the app is this: every problem in the bar business goes away when there's sales. You increase revenue and you solve every problem. It's when the revenues are low that [the business] doesn't work. So I wanted to put together an app that focused on top-line revenue, guest experience, and business management in a more organized way.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
If you think you can't, you're right.
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.