Robert Heller Born : 1826 Died : 1878 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Robert Heller Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. Robert Heller education inspirational love Effective management always means asking the right question. Robert Heller risk asking mean The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. Robert Heller administration differences choices Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail. Robert Heller going-for-it failing attitude No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers. Robert Heller management answers facts Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained. Robert Heller management want way The first myth of management is that it exists. Robert Heller boss management firsts No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back. Robert Heller choices decision thinking Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time. Robert Heller innovation creativity lying Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate. Robert Heller passionate innovation successful Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same. Robert Heller cooking running two Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to. Robert Heller ability want people Think before you act: it's not your money. Robert Heller think-before-you-act business thinking The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it. Robert Heller business losing way In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus. Robert Heller motivation inspiration teamwork The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. Robert Heller boss skills work All good management is the expression of one great idea Robert Heller business expression ideas Cash in must exceed cash out. Robert Heller exceed cash business Either an executive can do his job or he can't. Robert Heller executives business jobs If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it. Robert Heller sophisticated business action
