Robert Heller Quotes

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

Effective management always means asking the right question.

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.

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

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

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

Cash in must exceed cash out.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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.

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.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

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

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

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