Thabo Mbeki Quotes

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

As we seek to improve the management of the federal government, we should keep in mind that the government is not a private corporation. What may make sense for a large corporation may not always make sense for the federal government. In our quest for efficiency, we must not lose sight of the reasons why we enacted certain federal programs in the first place.

I was a business man. When they elected me, it took me two years to learn about how government ran.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

The quality revolution that swept American business somehow bypassed the Federal government.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

Running the country is like running one big business.

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

Quality starts in the boardroom.

You do not install quality; you begin to work at it.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.