“A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.”
Source: Quality Software Management: Volume 2, First-order measurement, 1993, p. 9
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“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”
Source: Decision and control: the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics, 1966, p. 239 cited in: A. Ghosal (1978) Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research. p. 2 and many other sources.
“Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.”
Source: The Lost Colony
“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”
Comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170
“It is strange that many believe they cannot control themselves, but they can control others.”
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 21
“The power of self-discipline. If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich.”
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“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 6, The Viable Governor, p. 146.