"The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who……" — Chester Barnard
"The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action"
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Chester Barnard
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8 Quotes by Chester Barnard
Chester Barnard has 8 quotes on this site.
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Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.
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The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely,…
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A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of…
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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of…
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It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
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A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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