Management Quotes

1370 Management quotes by 884 unique authors

I have a right to be blind sometimes. — Horatio Nelson
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have… — Unknown Author
It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine. — John G. Stumpf
High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many… — Franco Modigliani
I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else. — Yanni
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Unknown Author
The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day. — Unknown Author
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. — Richard Thaler
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Unknown Author
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. — Malcolm Gladwell
If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn
I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks. — Unknown Author
At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault.… — Warren Buffett
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine
We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are… — Amanda Ripley
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes — Peter Lynch
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — Alan Greenspan
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust. — Unknown Author
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information. — Unknown Author

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