A Quote by David Ogilvy

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

David Ogilvy

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Duty Fire Incompetent Inescapable Management People

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David Ogilvy
English - Businessman
June 23, 1911 - July 21, 1999

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

Donald Trump

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Clayton M. Christensen

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Abdu'l-Bahá

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.

Lawrence O'Donnell

I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are not given fair treatment by corporate management and mutual fund management. We need to develop a national standard of fiduciary duty to ensure that these agents, if you will, are adequately representing the principles - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund shareholders - whom they are duty bound to serve.

John C. Bogle

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

Kevin Mitnick

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

Angelina Jolie

I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

Tim Leffel

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Luke Ford

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

Brian Tracy

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Wole Soyinka

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Henry Mintzberg

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

Ernest L. Boyer

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

Jane Siberry

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Uday Kotak

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

Daniel H. Pink

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