Warren Bennis Quotes
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, 'Clean the kitty's litter box.' It's not like it's all about me.
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In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.
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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
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I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.
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All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet … I decided I wanted to beat him. … So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
