Robert Heller: Quotes about business

Robert Heller was British magician. Explore interesting quotes on business.
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“Two of my favourite current management writers are Americans – Clayton Christensen and Peter Senge. My all-time favourite gurus are Peter Drucker, who became a greatly admired friend, and W. Edwards Deming. The thing that set these people apart from many other business commentators is that they didn’t propose any all - encompassing theories, they simply told it like it is.
The fact is that life cannot be summarised as a simple set of rules; it’s far too complicated for that and it’s always changing. Unfortunately, all-encompassing panaceas do seem to be popular and certainly sell books, which is why I so value the objectivity of thought that each of these people brought to the debate.”

Robert Heller

Interview: Robert Heller (2006)

Life , People , Books , Business

“Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.”

Robert Heller

Source: The Naked Manager (1972), p. 12

Way , Home , Business , Cooking

“When I left university I had two objectives; I wanted to write and I wanted to get married. The only way I could afford both was to get a job as a journalist. At that time, the National Union of Journalists was very powerful and would not allow the direct recruitment of journalists from college except under special circumstances. The Financial Times was deemed special and duly recruited a cadre of very bright young people. I joined the FT as part of that now celebrated intake and, as a result, found myself working on a business newspaper.”

Robert Heller

Interview: Robert Heller (2006)

People , Way , Business , Universe

“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

Robert Heller

Source: The Decision makers (1989), Ch. 5. The Innovators’

Business , Thinking , Decision , Wealth

“All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.”

Robert Heller

Source: The Decision makers (1989), Ch. 10. The Competitors

Business

“Interview: Robert Heller: Alistair Schofield speaks to Robert Heller, journalist, commentator and the author of more than 50 books on management and business strategy.”

Robert Heller

2006
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Interview: Robert Heller (2006)

Business , Books