Quotes

Here are a collection of quotes from leaders and management gurus:

• Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.
  

  Warren G. Bennis, Management Author
  

• If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
  

  Richard Branson, Virgin group
  

• The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
  

  Warren Buffet, Investor
  

• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
  

  Peter Drucker, Management Guru
  

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
  

  Bill Gates, Microsoft
  

• In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits.
  

  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler
  

• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
  

  Aristotle Onasis, Greek Shipping Tycoon
  

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
  

  Sam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart.
  

• An organisation's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
  

  Jack Welch, GE
  

• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
  

  William Wordsworth, English Poet