Consultants Quotes:

General consultant to mankind.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mankind, Consultants

My primary consultant is myself.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Consultants, Primaries

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

- Andrew Thomas

topic: Giving, Advice, Essentials, Consultants

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

- Andrew Thomas

topic: Thinking, Giving, Salt, Consultants

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

- Bertrand Meyer

topic: Empowering, Roles, Indispensable, Consultants

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Language And Communication, Language Skills

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Change, Positive, Responsibility, Make Your Own Choices, Inspiration And Life

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own

- Jesse James Garrett

source: Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

topic: Long, Giving, Perspective, User Experience, Consultants

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

- Peter Block

topic: Knowledge, Learning, Connections, Consultants, Personal Connection

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

- Robert Townsend

topic: Business, People, Watches, Consultants

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

topic: Strength, Being Strong, Courage, True Strength, Consultants

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

- Scott Adams

topic: Life, Food, Men, Hungry Man, Dilbert

You can do anything, but not everything.

- David Allen

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Powerful, Caregivers, Consultants

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Asking Questions, Ignorant, Economy, Consultants, Asking Too Many Questions

A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.

- Mark Russell

topic: Guy, Making Love, Way, Consultants

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

- Charles Handy

topic: Helping Others, People, Want, Other People's Problems, Consultants

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

- Spencer Johnson

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Moral Ethics, Moral Integrity

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

- Norman Ralph Augustine

topic: Mind, Euthanasia, Consultants

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

- Nicholas Lore

source: Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

topic: Consultants

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.

- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

source: "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

topic: World, Waste, Ill, Bad Decision, Ineffectiveness

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants

- Jesse James Garrett

source: "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

topic: Roles, Projects, Not Sure, Consultants

In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

- Steve McConnell

source: Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education

topic: Opportunity, Missing, Use, Missing Opportunity, Software Development

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

- William Bridges

source: William Bridges (2011). “Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change”, p.14, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

topic: Team, People, Boss, Consultants, New Situations

[Donald Trump] said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program, "My primary consultant is myself." While this may make consensus easy, the range of perspective is dangerously narrow.

- David Krieger

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Morning, Perspective, May, Consultants

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

- Ross Perot

topic: Business, Snakes, Words Of Wisdom, Consultants

A consultant is only as good as their last project.

- Jon Taffer

source: Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

topic: Lasts, Projects, Consultants

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

- Felix Rohatyn

source: Felix G. Rohatyn (1983). “The twenty-year century: essays on economics and public finance”, Random House (NY)

topic: Dirty, Hands, People, Consultants

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

- Burton J. Hendrick

topic: Brother, Physicians, Firsts, Consultants

I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

- Charlie Munger

source: "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

topic: Vipers, Shirts, Compensation, Consultants

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

- Rob Zerban

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Hate, Thinking, Political, Consultants

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

- Rob Urbinati

topic: Jobs, Home, Long, Consultants

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

- Duff McDonald

source: Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications

topic: Giving, Strategy, Chief Executives, Consultants

People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.

- Kirstie Alley

topic: People, Jenny, Wells, Consultants

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants,

- Scott Raab

topic: Organization, Consultants

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

- Vivek Wadhwa

topic: School, Bankers, Management, Churning, Consultants

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.9, Random House

topic: Opposites, Journalism, Journalist, Consultants, Erudite

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

- Charley Pride

topic: Country, Fans, Moguls, Consultants, Country Music Fans

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

- Ralph Nader

source: Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

topic: Leaving, Democracy, Limits, Consultants, Pundits

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

- James Carville

topic: Thinking, People, Political, Consultants

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

- John Hench

topic: People, Details, Attention, Consultants

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

topic: Jobs, White, Wells, White Collar, Consultants

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

- Simon Sinek

source: FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

topic: Work, Admitting, Helping, Consultants

The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.

- Bill Capodagli

topic: Jobs, Roles, Exceptional, Consultants

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

- Kevin Kelly

topic: Thinking, Organization, Mind, Consultants

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett On Todd Combs, Berkshire's New Hedge Fund Superstar" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2011.

topic: Smart, Long, Style, Macro, Consultants

Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Thinking, Care, Amnesty, Consultants

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

- Christopher Myers

topic: Mom, Differences, Issues, Consultants

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

- Seth

topic: Real, Mind, Want, Consultants