Tim Gould quotes

“I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.”
-- Tim Gould

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“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.”

Source : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

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

Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.

“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.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“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.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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