"The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal."

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Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 27), 1968.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#Important Quotes #Strategy Quotes

“So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.”
“Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win ...”
“I-just-got-off-the-bus-and-I'm-really-excited-and-ambitious-and-I-took-an-acting-class-in-Des-Moines-and-I-know-I-really-need-an-agent-and-I-want-one-NOW”
“Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition.”

Source : Dan Smoot (1973). “The BUSINESS END of Government”
“My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.”
“Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.”
“Aurora is right,â€ Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”

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