Management Theory Quotes

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort you put into scoring against your opponents, and defense is the effort you apply to stop them from scoring against you. Those who suggest that "a little healthy competition can't hurt" are thinking only of the offense part....The offense component of internal competition is problematic, but the defense component is always injurious. When peer managers play defense against each other (try to stop each other from scoring), they are engaging in anticooperation.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.