Duty Quote by David Ogilvy Download Open image “It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.” — David Ogilvy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duty Fire Incompetent Management People Responsibility
If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him. — Charlie Finley Copy Share Image
Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of… — Christopher David Costanzo Copy Share Image
I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Your alcoholics may include some of your brightest stars. The problem is to identify them, protected as they always are by their secretaries and… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have a right to be sad, and a duty to move on. Only wins who wipes the tears, gather strength and move forward.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
