Best Risk Management Sayings

102 Risk Management quotes by 64 unique authors

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary… — William Redington Hewlett
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity — William Hunter
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard… — Charles Handy
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's… — Peter Drucker
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more… — Peter Drucker
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first… — W. Edwards Deming
The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give… — George E. P. Box
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire… — Peter R. Scholtes
It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly. — John Tukey
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and… — Peter Drucker
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn
Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming
Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement… — Douglas McGregor
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow. — W. Edwards Deming
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term. — W. Edwards Deming
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. — Dee Hock
Changes made by management today make no improvement. — Peter R. Scholtes
To copy is to invite disaster. — W. Edwards Deming
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we… — Russell L. Ackoff

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