Guru ' s Quotes on Management

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• 1. Guru’s Quotes
  on Management
  
• 2.
• 3. “Opportunity in the market place is because of
  a process ofconvergency…Convergency of forces that were previously not together”
  
• 4. Ninety percent of what we call
  ‘management’ consists of
  making it difficult for people to
  Get things done.”
  Peter Drucker
  
• 5. “Marketing is so basic that it cannot be considered a separate function.
  It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result,
  that is, from the customer’s point of view… Business success is
  not determined by the producer but by the customer.” - Peter Drucker
  
• 6. “There will be two kinds of CEOs who will exist in the next five years; those who think globally and those who are unemployed.” Peter Drucker
  
• 7. “There are five types of companies; those who make things happen; those who think they make things happen; those who watch things happen; those who wonder what happened; and those that did not know that anything had happened.”
  
• 8. I don’t know who you are.I don’t know your company.I don’t know your company’s product.I don’t know what your company stands for.I don’t know your company’s customers.I don’t know your company’s record.I don’t know your company’s reputation.Now what was it you wanted to sell me?McGraw-Hill Publications
  
• 9. Lee Iacocca
  
• 10. “The only job security anybody has in this company (Chrysler)comes from quality, productivity, and satisfied customers.” - Lee Iacocca
  
• 11. “Having lost sight of our objective, we redoubled our efforts.” Old Adage
  
• 12. “Plan are nothing; planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
  
• 13. “If we don’t change our direction,
  we are likely to end up
  where we are headed.” Old Chinese Proverb
  
• 14. “Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.”- John Scully
  
• 15. “The best way to be
  ready for the future
  is to invent it.”
  - John Sculley
  
• 16. “It is useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing
  is to learn how to swim in the direction it is flowing.”
  
• 17. “To manage a business well is to manage its future; and to manage the future is to manage information.”- Marion Harper
  
• 18. “Companies don’t make purchase, they establish relationships.”Charles S. Goodman
  
• 19. “Nothing in this world is so powerful asan idea whose time has come.”- Victor Hugo
  
• 20. “In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store, we sell hope.”- Charles Revson
  
• 21. “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”- Japanese proverb
  
• 22. “Forecasting is like trying to drive a car blindfolded and following directions given by a person who is looking out of the back window.” - Anonymous
  
• 23. “Treat the customeras an appreciatingasset.” Tom Peters
  
• 24. “Excellence comes from human beings doing things
  of value that clients find memorable.”
  Tom Peters
  
• 25. “The thing that keeps a firm ahead of the competition
  is excellence in execution.” - Tom Peters
  
• 26. “Brand inside is more important than brand outside
  for sustained success”Tom Peters
  
• 27. “The first place a marketing person has to sell is on the inside-and that’s the hardest of all.”