Robert Heller Quotes & Sayings

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

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs. — Robert Heller

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

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to. — Robert Heller

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it. — Robert Heller

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

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

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

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

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. — Robert Heller

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

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

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

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

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. — Robert Heller

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly. — Robert Heller

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail. — Robert Heller

All good management is the expression of one great idea — Robert Heller

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate. — Robert Heller

Effective management always means asking the right question. — Robert Heller

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

Fear is excitement without breath. — Robert Heller

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

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. — Robert Heller