British Quotes

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Management must manage!

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.