"It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this."
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"Good money management alone isn't going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn't any good, you're still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure."
"Good businesses can survive a little bad management."
"Management works in the system; leadership works on the system."
"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
"Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management"
"Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit."
"We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country."
"There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking."
"Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around."
"Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least."
"I have a right to be blind sometimes."
"The essence of management is to make knowledge productive."
"Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl."
"Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame."
"The moment has no time."
"I've actually not read any books on time management."
"When you break life down, it's about 100% time management."
"As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state."
"Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over."