Built Quote by Peter Drucker

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure…

— Barry Diller

The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking…

— Sanjaya Baru

In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft,…

— Walther Rathenau

I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There…

— Ken Moelis

There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot…

— Malcolm Forbes

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to…

— John Naisbitt

People believe that companies have always had strategies, dating back at least to likes of Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie, maybe to the contractors…

— Walter Kiechel

The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever…

— Chris Fussell

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

— Richard Branson

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

— Brian Clough

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may…

— David Rockefeller

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These…

— Eric Ries