Robert Heller Quotes

#1. Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

Robert Heller

#2. The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Robert Heller

#3. Effective management always means asking the right question.

Robert Heller

#4. No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Robert Heller

#5. Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

Robert Heller

#6. It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise.

Kate Atkinson

#7. Fear is excitement without breath.

Robert Heller

#8. No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John C. Maxwell

#9. In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Robert Heller

#10. Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Robert Heller

#11. Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Robert Heller

#12. I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.

William Zinsser

#13. If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

Robert Heller

#14. Success=Assinchair

Judy Griffith Gill

#15. The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

#16. Think before you act: it's not your money.

Robert Heller

#17. No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Robert Heller

#18. I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

Ted Danson

#19. If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

Robert Heller

#20. The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

Robert Heller

#21. Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

Robert Heller

#22. Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Robert Heller

#23. If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

Robert Heller

#24. No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

George Washington

#25. Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

Robert Heller

#26. Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Robert Heller

#27. No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

Robert Heller

#28. Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

Robert Heller

#29. ....And for that instant his sun was at noon.

J.M. Barrie

#30. All good management is the expression of one great idea

Robert Heller