Best Consultants Quotes

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there’s a certain segment of society I think it’s political consultants and operatives.

All too many consultants, when asked, ‘What is 2 and 2?’ respond, ‘What do you have in mind?’

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn’t know any women.

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization’s top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

Donald Trump’s against amnesty and I’m against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.

You don’t need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

I’m not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

A consultant is only as good as their last project.

Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects – UFO’s. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO’s could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.

The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics – candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike – is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

My job involves a lot of different skills now – I’m as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days – but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.

It’s hard to think that you’re a political consultant – not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it’s a risk ’cause I – you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions…