Brian Tracy Quotes

Running the country is like running one big business.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

I'm a business owner.

I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

We must understand variation.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.

Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.