Management Theory Quotes

Needless documentation hampers performance.

~ Rajen Jani

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

~ Rajen Jani

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.

~ Joseph Stalin

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

~ Jay Samit

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

~ Jay Samit

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

~ Jay Samit

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

~ Jay Samit

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

~ Jay Samit

Disruptors don't have to discover something new, they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

~ Jay Samit

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

~ Jay Samit

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

~ Jay Samit

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

~ Jay Samit

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

~ Jay Samit

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

~ Jay Samit

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

~ Jay Samit

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

~ Jay Samit

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

~ Jay Samit

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

~ Jay Samit

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

~ Jay Samit

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

~ Jay Samit

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

~ Jay Samit

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

~ Jay Samit

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

~ Jay Samit

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

~ Jay Samit

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

~ Jay Samit

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

~ Jay Samit

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

~ Jay Samit

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

~ Jay Samit

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

~ Jay Samit

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

~ Jay Samit

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

~ Jay Samit

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

~ Jay Samit

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

~ Jay Samit

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

~ Jay Samit

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

~ Jay Samit

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

~ Jay Samit

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

~ Jay Samit

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

~ Jay Samit