Tim Gould famous quotes

04-05-2025

  • When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

  • Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

  • When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

  • A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

  • When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

  • Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

  • A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

  • I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

  • The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

  • Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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