Michael Hammer Quotes

#1. The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

Gina Carano

#2. Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

Charles Spurgeon

#3. To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Michael Martin Hammer

#4. Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Michael Martin Hammer

#5. She shook her head in admiration. "You've thought of everything," she said. But Will looked up at her and shook his head solemnly.
"I doubt it," he said. "No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

John Flanagan

#6. Whoever said cotton panties aren't sexy hasn't seen Bright Side in a pair of them.

Kim Holden

#7. Good." Michael wrapped his hand around the hilt.
Then he lifted it, cocked the hammer, and put the barrel against Hunter's forehead. "Now where the fuck are my brothers?

Brigid Kemmerer

#8. America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Michael Martin Hammer

#9. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#10. A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

Michael Martin Hammer

#11. The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Michael Gira

#12. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

#13. Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.

MC Hammer

#14. Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Michael Martin Hammer

#15. When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse.

Michael Hogan

#16. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

Robert Carlyle

#17. Be attached to opportunities - money-making ideas - not a particular type of business or industry.

Ehab Atalla

#18. Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

Pierce Brown

#19. Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

Michael Martin Hammer

#20. The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

Michael Martin Hammer

#21. Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.

A. J. Jacobs

#22. I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was too short for the stage. I would have been doing character roles, so I went to Los Angeles. There is a lot more happening out there. I also felt it was important to break away from my family.

Julie Warner

#23. Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Michael Martin Hammer

#24. If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Michael Martin Hammer

#25. Whenever I do overcome my inherent fear, it turns out well.

Stefan Sagmeister

#26. I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

Michael Easton