Bob Parsons Quotes

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

What gets measured, gets done.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

You have to make your company idiot-proof because you may have an idiot running it some day.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

For too long the federal government has measured quantity, not quality: What it puts in rather than what it gets out.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

I really try to handle my business on the floor.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

You can't control what you can't measure

The things that get rewarded, get done

The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.