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Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
Sep 30, 2025
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Real management is developing people through work.
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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