Academic Quote by James G. March

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

— Duff McDonald

“When a consultant interviews you, she is wondering, Can I drop you off with a division of a Fortune 500 company by yourself, with…

— Victor Cheng

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

— Anonymous

“all you need to know in order to be a consultant is more than the person you’re consulting with.”

— Colin Wright

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with…

— Walter Kiechel

“Too many consultants fall in love with their own methodology. Success in this business comes from marketing, not from the depth of consulting expertise.…

— Alan Weiss

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

— Andrew Thomas

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is…

— H. L. Mencken

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

— Bertrand Meyer

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

— Joe Torre

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

— Kevin O'Leary