Top 31 Quotes About Mckinsey
#1. I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
Warren Buffett
#2. An apple cannot not become an orange simply because a McKinsey report concluded it would be beneficial for it to do so.
Pallavi Aiyar
#3. A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.
Sheryl Sandberg
#5. 'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.
Tom Peters
#6. McKinsey partners tend to be designers of ditches, not diggers of ditches. When it comes to executing their lofty theories, well, consultants lean toward leaving those messy realities to the companies themselves.
Bethany McLean
#7. In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
Tom Peters
#8. If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.
Sam Altman
#11. Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
Rebecca McKinsey
#12. The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
Rebecca McKinsey
#14. If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
Rebecca McKinsey
#15. Keeping Christ in Christmas is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.
Rebecca McKinsey
#16. Sydney tried - sometimes he really tried - but his default mindset didn't have those kinds of manners. What he really meant was more like "Jacob, get over here or I'll freeze your underwear." Something like that.
Rebecca McKinsey
#18. Develop your characters well enough that they do stupid things on their own.
Rebecca McKinsey
#19. I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
Rebecca McKinsey
#21. There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.
Rebecca McKinsey
#23. Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone - or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.
Rebecca McKinsey
#24. When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.
Rebecca McKinsey
#25. Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?
Dennis McKinsey
#26. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement. That means aligning sales coverage with opportunity and creating straightforward sales "plays" for each type of opportunity.
McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum
#27. One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.
Rebecca McKinsey
#28. When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.
Rebecca McKinsey
#29. The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.
Rebecca McKinsey
#30. Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.
Dennis McKinsey
#31. Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
Rebecca McKinsey
