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

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

The role of any exceptional facilitator or consultant is to work themselves out of a job.

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don’t feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

It’s the Democrats’ same old weakness: much too much dependency on consultants and TV ads rather than mobilizing people.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded ‘the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world’ . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper’s Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

If you want to run for the United States Senate, you hire a consultant who will do polling for you, who will tell you the kinds of television ads you should run, who will tell you that most of the money you raise has got to go into TV. Raising money, and then putting that money into the hands of consultants, who then put on TV ads – that’s more or less what campaigns are about. We’ve got to change that.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants.

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

The consultant’s first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

The whole concept of dividing it up into ‘value’ and ‘growth’ strikes me as twaddle. It’s convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

I’d rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

I’m certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don’t call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That’s all I really know how to do.

My primary consultant is myself.

When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There’s just stuff I don’t get. And there’s something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don’t try to pretend.

Bush’s life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. ’88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It’s usually advised by consultants who don’t want to see you march to the end of a limb.

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

General consultant to mankind.

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That’s how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.

My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it’s amazing.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.