Fortune Quote by Walter O'Brien

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their…

— Ken Blanchard

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running…

— Steve Jobs

There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who…

— Nancy Dubuc

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision,” he told Playboy in 1985. “They insert lots of layers of middle…

— Adam Lashinsky

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make…

— Clayton M. Christensen

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear…

— Elon Musk

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

— Anonymous

People leave managers, not companies

— Marcus Buckingham

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

— Paul Samuelson

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

— Mark Cuban