Sumantra Ghoshal Quotes

#1. The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#2. The truly effective managers we've observed are purposeful, trust in their own judgement, and adopt long-term, big-picture views to fulfill personal goals that tally with those of the organization as a whole. They break out of their perceived boxes, take control of their jobs, ...

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#3. I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

Jessica Hahn

#4. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

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#5. Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

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#6. You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

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#7. You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

Junot Diaz

#8. Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn't drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

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#9. What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

Christopher Gadsden

#10. The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day.

Neil Gaiman

#11. He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

Hank Williams Jr.

#12. We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#13. Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Philip Roth

#14. Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

Marcel Proust

#15. You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.

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#16. Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading ... it's a very, very powerful tool.

Gary Wright

#17. By following what they believe are stick orders from the top, many typical managers tend to concentrate on working within budget and resource constraint --- thereby developing a boxed-in, "can't do" mindset.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#18. Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

Robert Jordan

#19. Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Epicurus

#20. The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

Ali Babacan

#21. Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Mike Jackson