#gem

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#being #change #companies #demanded #done

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#corporate #management #obligation #parameters #profit

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#crisis #dealing #hope #i #language

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself. ↗

— Carl Stokes

#being #city #going #hear #i

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

#detective #finesse #ingenious #joy #rare

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#implemented #making #making decisions #management #manages

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#america #hotels #i #management #north

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #discouragement #encouragement #family #fiction