46 Quotes by Robert Heller

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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.

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.