Famous Quotes / Robert Townsend
14 Quotations by Robert Townsend
- 1. A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
- 2. A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of h ...
- 3. Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a proble ...
- 4. Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with th ...
- 5. Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
- 6. If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be p ...
- 7. If you have to have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments.
- 8. If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot o ...
- 9. Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
- 10. Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
- 11. Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
- 12. One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
- 13. Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong pa ...
- 14. True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.