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Peter Drucker	The enterprise that does not innovate inevitably ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, an entrepreneurial period, the decline will be fast
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	The secret of innovation is that it gives you a temporary monopoly. It means that you can charge more for it
Tom Peters	Listening is the highest form of courtesy
David Ogilvy	High morale is magnetic...and nothing kills it faster than Merchants of Malaise. Removesad dogs who spread gloom
Theodore Roosevelt	The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people
Peter F Drucker	Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work
Mark Cuban	All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal
Institute of Public Policy Research	An employee's satisfaction with their work and a positive view of the organisation, combined with relatively extensive and sophisticated people management practices are the most important predictors of future productivity
John Imhoff	Any organisation is like a septic tank. The really big chunks rise to the top
Peter Drucker	Efficiency is doing a thing right - effective is doing the right thing
Paul Goodman	Few great men would have got past personnel
John F Kennedy	Change is the law of life. Those who choose to ignore it are sure to miss the future
Arthur Baer	His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours
David Ogilvy	High morale is magnetic...and nothing kills it faster than Merchants of Malaise. Remove 'sad dogs' who spread gloom'
David Ogilvy	Hire the kind of people clients wouldn't have the nerve to hire
Henry Ford	I am looking for people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done
Philip Kotler	If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
Albert Grant	If you think your boss is stupid remember that you wouldn't have a job if he was smarter
Harold Coffin	In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything
Tom Peters	Make visible heroes of the insanely busy people who sprinted the extra two miles to help another team
David Ogilvy	Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent. And talent is most likely to be found among non conformists, dissenters and rebels
Peter F Drucker	Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work
Peter Drucker	So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work
Charles Dickens	The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
George McGovern	The longer the title, the less important the job
Vidal Sassoon	The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary
Casey Stengel	The secret of managing is to keep the guys you hate away from the guys who are undecided
Lily Tomlin	The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat
Robert Frost	The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them
Robert Half	There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability
Henley Management College	There appears to be a positive correlation between an atmosphere of human playfulness (i.e. humour) in the workplace and the improvement of innovative activity and creativity...There is also a negative correlation between high levels of stress and creativity in the workplace
Doris Lilly	To make a really long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in
Raymond Cvikota	Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel
Keith Davis	We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure
William Wrigley Jr	When two men in business always agree, one of them in unnecessary
Philip Kotler	Whilst innovation is risky, non innovation can be fatal

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