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Management Quotes by Warren Buffett
- When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that…
- We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- Never invest in a business you can't understand
- The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
- At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault.…
- If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller
- Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because…
- Is management rational?
- Is management candid with the shareholders?
- Does management resist the institutional imperative?
- In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
- When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
More Management Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Nostalgia is a seductive liar. — George Ball
- Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are… — Amelia Barr
- The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of… — Dave Barry
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. — Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
- Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
- Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate