“Understand that a great manager is essentially an organizational engineer.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
I think what I hope to gain from Rafa, the great manager that he is, is he can give a positive influence… — Miguel Almiron Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for… — Mad Magazine Copy Share Image
“The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that measure how good… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are trying to do God's work with the… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there.… — Nasreddin Copy Share Image
“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization… — Myron Sharaf Copy Share Image
“I've been surprised by how many of you actually seem to believe that what you have is perfection. [...] A great many… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Just because someone’s dead doesn’t mean you have to talk about them like they’re not there. He may be dead, but that… — Caleb Reese Copy Share Image
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could “not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a… — James Dean Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was… — Harry Truman Copy Share Image
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words:… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image