Management

🇨🇦Laurence J. Peter

Education

1919–1990

"Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous."

🇺🇸Tim Cook

Business

b. 1960

"If you want me to only do things for ROI reasons then you should get out of this stock."

🇺🇸James G. March

Science

1928–2018

"They are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences."

"The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage."

"When a firm chooses to allocate its most valuable resources away from clients and to young stars, the economic consequences are real and visible."

🇺🇸Satya Nadella

Business

b. 1967

"We have a lot of work to do. We have 90% of PC share and 14% of total device share. We get that,"

🇺🇸James C. Collins

Business

b. 1958

"Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going — for where you are going will almost certainly change"

🇺🇸Scott Adams

Literature

1957–2026

"I think New Yorkers are more provocative in every way."

🇺🇸John Roberts

Philosophy

1947–2026

"We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them."

🇯🇵Ikujiro Nonaka

Economics

1935–2025

"In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge."

🇺🇸Andrew Grove

Business

1936–2016

"The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life."

🇺🇸Jack Welch

Business

1935–2020

"Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur."

"an individual who, because of his training, experience, and competence, is employed to develop and expand the assets and realizations of owners."

"Although the Gordon and Howell report noted the diversity of approaches to the study of management, it was Harold Koontz who delineated the differences and applied the catchy label ‘‘management theory jungle.’’"

"Product quality can then be defined as: The composite product characteristics of engineering and manufacturing that determine the degree to which the product, in use, will meet the expectations of the customer."

Robert Owen

Philosophy

Socialism

1771–1858

"To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate."

🇺🇸Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Education

b. 1943

"Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely."