Robert Heller Quotes

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

Effective management always means asking the right question.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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

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

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.

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

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

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

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Cash in must exceed cash out.

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

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

Fear is excitement without breath.

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.