Managment Quotes

This famous quotation was only partly original. The most famous part, "Facts are stubborn things" was earlier used by the French Writer, Alain René Le Sage in Gil Blas

There is a great tendency in politics and government operations to get extremely precise numbers because political opponents will always attack all numbers that do not support their positions. The result is that typically, so much time and money goes into trying to get precision, that by the time the numbers are good enough the opportunity to make the right policy decision will have passed. Much information that bears on an issue is never used because it is not precise enough while the precise information is not particularly relevant. See {619763} for a similar related quote.

This was the origin of the first part of John Adams famous quoation {310967}

In 1902 there was a major coal and railroad labor crisis. The owners and operators refused to negotiate or bargain with labor: This quotation is very famous because it is an iconic picture of the views and attitudes of the large industiralists at the turn of the 20th Century. More than opposing labor unions, they actually believed that God had selected them to run the economic and business affairs of the country if not the world. It was their Christian values and paternalism that the workers should look to in order to determine the rights and priviliges of the working man or woman. This upper class attitude was one of the major reasons that class warfare broke into the open. Ironically, there was not much difference between the attidudes of the industiral leaders and the notions of fudalism.

Hayes was a Civil Service reformer. After the presidency of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and subsequent Presidents fired large numbers of public servants—even minor poitions and replaced them with supporters. Hayes stopped that practice and initiated civil servce reform.

His reference was to the continuation of royal rule after French had taken control.

The "job" to which he referred was the Director of the Mossad—–the world's premier espionage and intelligence organization. Prior to Netanyahu, the Mossad had been highly professionalized with little political interference. However, Netanyahu changed that. As an Israeli polarizing politician Netanyahu'a policies and statements where often under attack. What makes this insult particularly interesting is that it had nothing to do with policy but dealt with an aspect of Netanyahu's performance that few discussed.

Calls for government restraint and small government are not something that only began in modern times.

This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.

Wilson appears to be the first to use the "bang for the buck" phrase. In this original use, it was less of a metaphor than it usually in as it described atomic testing.