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102 Risk Management quotes by 64 unique authors

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information — William Hunter
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to… — W. Edwards Deming
Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for… — W. Edwards Deming
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. — W. Edwards Deming
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they… — George E. P. Box
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that… — Russell L. Ackoff
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and… — Russell L. Ackoff
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management… — Samuel Wilson
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. — Andrew Lo
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting… — Harriet Rubin
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. — Albert Einstein
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. — Earl Nightingale
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually… — Michael Porter
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to… — Nikola Tesla
A manager is an assistant to his men. — Thomas J. Watson
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! — Douglas Adams
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. — William Gibson
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett
I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even… — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank,… — Timothy Noah
We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time… — Karen Mills

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