Best 19 quotes of Robert Heller on MyQuotes

All good management is the expression of one great idea

Cash in must exceed cash out.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

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.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

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.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

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.

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

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.

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Think before you act: it's not your money.

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.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.