Management Competence Quotes

#1. An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

Dee Hock

#2. Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Peter Drucker

#3. Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

Tony Dovale

#4. To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

Barry Marshall

#5. She's a beautiful flower put in a pot and hidden in a closet. You can't keep her a little girl forever.

V.C. Andrews

#6. I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing.

Max Tundra

#7. Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

Rob Nixon

#9. Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable.

Rafael Sabatini

#10. Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

Ram Dass

#12. My home is not a place. It's not a fixed location on the map; not Paris or New York. It is with Ava. Wherever she is - that is where I belong.

Amy Plum

#13. I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

Marlee Matlin

#14. Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Dennis Weaver

#15. I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Julie Harris

#16. Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Niklaus Wirth

#17. In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.

Peter Cundill

#18. Chuse thy Cloaths by thine own Eyes, not another's. The more plain and simple they are, the better. Neither unshapely, nor fantastical; and for Use and Decency, and not for Pride. 75. If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Various

#19. We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.

Allan Dare Pearce

#20. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#21. I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson