Management Failure Quotes

#1. Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

James C. Collins

#2. Friends are important, dontcha think? Hmmm? I think so. The way I see it, you got friends, and you got your best friend, big difference. To me, a friend's a guy who will help you move. A best friend's a guy who will help you move a body. That's how I look at it.

Dave Attell

#3. Some day you will have a nemesis,' Madame warned bitterly. 'It's not easy, you know. Someone who has the ability to do everything you wish you could, but with greater ease, style, success.

Kathleen Tessaro

#4. His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success
or the most to lose from failure.

Michael Crichton

#5. I have a hard enough time being me, not pulling myself apart every single day. And if it wasn't just my personality and my life choices, but then also my art too? I would die." I

Jami Attenberg

#6. Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

Robert F. Engle

#7. I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.

Luke Harding

#8. It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

#9. The man who has the courage to say he is wrong has to face the worst hatred; the hatred of those who think he is right.

Martin Edwards

#10. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

Tony Dovale

#11. As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village ... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#12. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

Lolly Daskal

#13. Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners ... their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.

William Manchee

#15. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Lolly Daskal

#16. Lack of power is a great excuse for failure, but sufficient power is never a necessary condition of leadership. There is never sufficient power. In fact, it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.

Tom DeMarco

#17. It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

Richard P. Feynman

#18. There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Tom Krause

#19. Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

Moutasem Algharati

#20. If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

James Marsden

#21. We are all going.

John Green

#22. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

Antony Gormley

#23. The punch line is 'knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured'.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#24. What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

Ian Astbury

#25. The worst thing about working retail is that your friends get chosen for you by management. It's the scariest thing about working in the service industry: your coworkers reflect your own failure.

Isaac Jourden

#26. This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

#27. If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.

Monroe Trout

#28. Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone ... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

John Green

#29. Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

W. Edwards Deming

#30. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.

Tony Curl

#31. A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#32. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#33. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Paul Gibbons

#34. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Chip Kidd