Avoided Quote by Alfred P. Sloan

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for…

— JC Penney

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives…

— John Lee Mahin

“After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff…

— Alan G. Robinson

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

— Gretchen Carlson

The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a…

— B. C. Forbes

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

— George Horace Lorimer

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've learned. Every organization needs somebody standin' out front. Call it a figurehead, a leader, a headman, a kingpin, a president, whatever. It doesn't…

— Lucky Luciano

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

— Anonymous

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

— Clarence Benjamin Jones

“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of…

— Christopher David Costanzo

“As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the…

— Dean M. Schroeder