"Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about."

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Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

Tom DeMarco

#Team Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.”
“The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'”
“At the end of the tour last year, I was completely fried. I felt my soul was begging me to give it a release. Two long trips to Costa Rica and to Iceland I've made were the best things I could have ever done for myself and you see it with the songs I wrote before I left and the songs I wrote after - there are two different Kips in there.”

Source : Source: people.com
“The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.”
“Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.”
“Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.”
“Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”
“Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.”

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