Business Philosophy Quotes / Business Philosophy Quotations
Successful thinking "outside the box" usually means someone simply opened the box, or failing that, chose a different box.
If you cannot freely give credit to non-family members for your success, then you are either a jerk or have not had much success.
In the US, poverty is not best defined by a lack of material possessions. Rather, poverty is a dysfunction of location - such as the whereabouts of home, security, mind, body, spirit, and opportunity.
A closed mouth gathers no feet. (Author = Unknown)
Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. (Author = Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, ?)
Being repeatedly knocked down keeps you grounded.
An advantage to being repeatedly knocked down before you get back up is that the next fall isn't as far.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. (Author = Isaac Asimov)
Things that often provided me greatest wealth are things I did for free. Yes . . . "wealth" includes money.
The reward for hard work is hard work. (Author = Unknown)
Happiness is hard work. (Author = Multiple Authors)
A goal without a plan is just a wish. (Author = Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. (Author = Unknown)
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Author = Aristotle)
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others. (Author = Groucho Marx)
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (Author = John Steinbeck)
My lawyers have an unlimited budget, and each year they exceed it. (Author = Multiple Authors)
Just because you can do something, does not necessarily mean you should do something. (Author = Unknown)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails (Author = William Arthur Ward)
When challenges are cultivated as evolving roots of new opportunities, a business thrives; feckless lamentation kills.
The most complete and reliable way to ruin your business, is to completely rely on others to run your business.
The only thing worse than having to pay taxes, is not having to pay taxes. (Author = Unknown)
The most fundamental decisions are best not decided, but instead acted upon guided by principle.
If you always act on principle, then life is never a test.
When the best thing is unclear, do the right thing.
I prefer to tell the truth - its easier to memorize. (Author = Graham Greene)
In the workplace, the amount of paperwork is directly proportional to the number of paperless devices.
Two options to improve airplane safety: Plan A: Disallow checked-in and carry-on luggage; deny the in-flight use of all electronics; require passengers to pass through body scanners and certify the detailed accuracy of their body parts; force each passengers to disrobe and undergo thorough oral and vaginal/prostate exams as well as colonoscopy; and then bind each unclothed passenger to a crucifix from take-off to landing to prevent them from moving about the cabin, putting anything on their lap, or going to the bathroom. Plan B: Don't let known terrorists bring explosives on the plane.
With true capitalism, the more you use a product, the more your business is valued by the company providing the product. The travel industry is unique in that no matter how often you travel, and no matter how many precautions you take, an airline, a hotel, or a meetings person will ultimately find some way to punish you for using their services.
During my travels, the wonderment of unexpected encounters often make me feel like I never left the farm - and I don't live on a farm.
Once committing to a project, being "too busy" is a rational excuse only for those under the self-centered delusion that nobody else has anything to do.
If I didn't have so much to do, then I could get a lot more done.
If you are not "able" to do your job, and someone else wants to do it, then let them, or just do your job.
You are monkeying around with too many things when you can't find your glasses, but they are on your face; try to turn off the radio, but it isn't on; and want others to feel appreciated, but never find time to tell them.
Don't condemn incompetence; incompetent people make competent people successful.
A bout of ill-health is God's reminder to appreciate the truly important things in life - such as staying caught up at work.
We all succeed, only if we all succeed.
Self pity is the drain to nowhere.
Don't just throw dollars at fires; it fuels the flame and your money goes up in smoke.
One business strategy is to let things ride on the chance you will be long gone before the game is over. Another strategy is to strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today. The first strategy is an easy roll of the dice with the objective of cashing out. The second is hard work and sacrifice with the objective of eventual return on an investment. The former is playing at business; the latter is running a business. Your choice reflects who and what you are.
Common sense is not that common. (Author = Voltaire)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Author = Albert Einstein)
The first step towards happiness is asking the simple question: "What do I want?" The second step is to ensure pride and ego do not keep you from completing the first step.
When life offers you lemonade, don't get stuck with only the rinds.
Too much pride + not enough principle = failure. The solution is knowing the difference between the two.
During training, your work is preparing for your career. As an employee, your work defines your work. Once an employer, you may find your career is spent preparing for work.
Meetings should only be held by those who understand the difference between movement and progress.
Never confuse motion with action. (Author = Ernest Hemingway)
When others are trying to snow you, relentlessly asking for the cold, hard facts wipes away the word blizzard that otherwise blurs your vision.
If you wonder why "somebody" doesn't do something about all the negativity in the workplace, and you are the boss, then a neat trick is look into the mirror until the "somebody" magically appears.
If you assume all business responsibilities on your own, then your business will be closed within a year. If you defer all business responsibilities to others, then your business will be closed within a year.
If the repeated advice of your consultant is that you need other consultants, then you need another consultant.
Two of the largest business liabilities are obstinance and arrogance.
The second biggest challenge in business is to know when to invest in a project with a high potential for success. The first biggest challenge in business is to know when to divest in a project with a high potential for failure.
Timeliness will help you generate business from two important groups: those who are always timely, and those who are already behind.
If you want something done, give it to a busy person. (Author = Unkown)
Running a business without paranoia is just crazy.
Cautious expansion while nurturing diversification enhances survival during natural business life cycles. Reckless and unsustainable growth risks a wasteful demise. You must always "feed the beast."
While somewhat treatable, "documentopenia" (lack of adequate documentation) is otherwise incurable.
Nothing disrupts the free flow of traffic quite like a tragedy to a fellow motorist, a dysfunctional traffic signal, a visible police car, a flat tire, and an oblivious driver lagging in the passing lane.
Regarding life, anyone who says: "I wouldn't change a thing" is either delusional, or never had a life.
Competitors are those who, upon doing the very best they have ever done, are convinced this is their new average.
A competitor is someone who believes balance in life is a strategic disadvantage.
Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy-ass weight. (Author = Ronnie Coleman)
Make a million attempts; then watch others marvel and resent the one success you achieved.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. (Author = Wayne Gretzky)
Fair competition is amoral.
There's no chance unless you take one. (Author = ICarly theme song)
Neither underestimate, nor overestimate your opponents. You don't know all they know; they don't know all you know.
Process is like potassium to the heart of your business. Not enough results in dangerous asynchronous, chaotic rhythms; too much stops everything and causes corporate rigor mortis.
Adding another layer of process in response to every problem turns a single page into a voluminous encyclopedic compendium; nobody reads voluminous encyclopedic compendiums.
You have reached a critical point of "branding" when less of your time is spent looking for work, and more of your time is spent on work that finds you.
Once you have reached your lofty status, it is hypocrisy to then criticize others for taking your same path, and shamelessness to then advocate dismantling your old bridges.
First, make them want something like what you are selling. Second, make them believe no one else has anything like what you are selling.
After 100 great steak dinners, a customer might come back. After 1 bad steak dinner, he will never return.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. (Author = Jay Leno)
When signing a piece of paper with a knife affixed to your carotid, it is the shiny blade that has your attention.
"We're a conservative company" is often the mantra of mindless drones sent out to explain the radical grab for corporate message control, and the liberal pursuit of other self-serving business interests.
O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right wing will over time become left wing.
Making assumptions based upon political correctness makes for misguided staffing considerations. Any accurate assessment of the lack of certain groups to advance should include whether members of the group want to advance. For example, when women decline management positions for reasons of family or preference, this is not a sign of societal oppression, nor is it a display of irrational gender weakness. Rather, it is an expression of rational choice.
If you are unwilling to step on the first rung of the Corporate ladder, then it is unreasonable for you to complain about your inability to move upward and break the glass ceiling.
Most women say they would rather work for a man.
While unconscionable when it occurs, many women have the extraordinary ability to endure inappropriate comments and unprofessional conduct in the workplace - that is - until someone criticizes their shoes.
If during the lunch break, men spoke the same as women, they would be sued into oblivion.
It is sometimes understandable to think a woman employee should "man up." It is rarely wise to tell her.
The times to be most cautious with a reporter are when the cameras start or stop, when you are asked to comment on and off the record, or when the topic pertains to the past, present, or future.
Assuming you work harder than anybody else is likely to be as accurate as assuming you have more problems than anybody else.
If you repeatedly say "I get it," then you probably don't. If you constantly tell others what you are not, then you probably are.
Its only the giving that makes us what we are. (Author = Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull)
Its not having what you want. Its wanting what you've got. (Author = Sheryl Crow)
Going to Church no more makes you a Christian than standing in the garage makes you a car. (Author = Unknown)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (Author = Albert Einstein)
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it begins to add up to real money. (Author = Everett Dirksen)
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. (Author = Napoleon)
Getting the facts often reveals conspiracies to be acts of indifference. It is not that they reject you because you are a big somebody who must be stopped. Rather, it is more likely they perceive you to be a big nothin', so they just don't care.
Often, the best way to close a sale is to take it away. (Author = Unknown)
Once you sold it, don't resell it.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says: "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. (Author = Mary Kay Ash)
If everything goes against you, then maybe you need a different direction. If everything goes your way, then maybe you are not as successful as you could be.
Once the destination is set, the only decision is the best way to get there.
To maximize business expansion success: (1) growth should be in an area for which you have experience; (2) assessment of success should be through proven metrics; (3) the commitment towards carefully selecting quality employees should be no less of a long-term investment than the buildings and equipment; and (4) contingencies should ensure that if the expansion fails, it will not jeopardize the core business.
Without responsibility, there can be no accountability. (Author = Unknown)
You are never wanted more than when someone else wants you . . . or when you go to the bathroom.
Success is often the only difference between a quirky genius, and a deviant jerk.
The phrase: “If you didn't document it, it didn't happen” used to convey the need for documentation to avoid credible claims of denial. It now conveys the need to avoid documentation to allow credible claims of denial. Particularly regarding matters of potential liability, the squishy, unverifiable “call me” is preferred over the solid, evidentiary written correspondence. Legal counsel used to recommend everyone document everything; now they recommend no one document anything. Verifiability is “out”; deniability is “in”.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. (Author = Reinhold Niebuhr)
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (Author = Walt West)
There are two rules for being a successful consultant: Rule #1 - Don't tell people everything you know. (Author = unknown)
Quality is remembered long after the cost is forgotten. (Author = Gucci)
I am entirely too busy to get behind.
When old ideas fail, management may proclaim "nothing is off the table." They may encourage you to propose bold new ideas, and "think outside the box." Do not be fooled by this cathartic, yet vacuous validation of supposed open-mindedness towards novel approaches. Because despite all their words, leadership will ultimately direct you to "just get it done" by, at best, allowing you to tweak the same old ideas by working on the same old table within the same old box.
Its OK to reject new ideas - just don't waste other people's time by soliciting them.
Congratulations! After careful consideration of your qualifications, experience, and past success, we have selected you to assist us with this project. We feel the best next step is for us to micromanage what you do, and how you do it.
Each of you has an established record of success with similar projects. Now that we independently decided upon a development plan without your input, we are disappointed you are not meeting your goals. To help resolve your problems, we believe the best solution is to berate your poor performance, and insist you do better.
Although we did not take your advice, we thank you so much for your expert opinion, and continue to value your input. Now that things are not proceeding as anticipated (just as you predicted), we are again seeking your recommendations. Due to the important nature of this project, we are now willing to consider any proposal to move this project forward - as long as it does not alter what we have done, only affects you, and adheres to our original plan. Thank you again for all your help, and we look forward to hearing from you soon!
Those with scars have the most intimate knowledge of healing; those who avoided scars never needed healing.
If you want to get a project approved by management, convene a panel of experts who are well-aware they are getting paid for their opinions. In a follow-up meeting, re-invite only those experts who favored your project. Repeat this process until you can truthfully tell management that a group of experts unanimously and enthusiastically supported further development of your project.
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Management, time scheduling, and you:
- t = - 12 months: Management plans to get everything completed and submitted to you within the next 6 months. This gives you more than enough time to complete your preparation to start work immediately as scheduled. This is critically important because the high priority and unique time lines of this project.
- t = - 6 months: Management plans to get everything completed and submitted to you within the next 3 months. The unavoidable delay was due to unanticipated vacations, holidays, staffing turn-over, and weekends (who works on weekends?). However, this still gives you plenty of time to start as scheduled. This is critically important because the high priority and unique time lines of this project.
- t = - 3 months: Management plans to get everything completed and submitted to you within the next 8 weeks. The unavoidable delay was due to budgeting and marketing issues. However, this still gives you time to start as scheduled. This is critically important because the high priority and unique time lines of this project.
- t = - 4 weeks: Management plans to get everything completed and submitted to you within the next 4 weeks. The unavoidable delay was due to "legal" and regulatory issues. This means you will need to rush your preparations so that you can start as soon as possible upon getting the "go-ahead" from management. This is critically important because the high priority and unique time lines of this project.
- t = 0 weeks: Management plans to get everything completed and submitted to you within the next 2 weeks. The unavoidable delay was due to "supplier" problems. While regrettable you are starting out behind, nothing can be done about that now. It is not productive to dwell on the past; everyone needs to be focused on the future. The bottom-line is that middle management is being pressured by upper management to get this done, and you need to complete your tasks sooner than originally scheduled. Further delays on your part are not acceptable. This is critically important because the high priority and unique time lines of this project.
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During down economic cycles, balancing the budget requires a business to re-evaluate priorities and improve efficiency through eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. This enhances business services and reward when economic cycles improve. When the government fails to balance its budget during times of deficit, it deprives the People a re-examination of priorities, improved efficiency, and fairness. Most of all, it disenfranchises the People by denying them better governance now, and even better government services and benefits when tax revenues recover.
Balancing a budget protects the future. It also protects the past legacy and current pride of an individual, a family, a business, a goverment, a city, a state, a country and a people.
When government screws up, it rarely implements measures solely meant to correct its own errors. "Reform" usually includes punishing citizens. Because by inflicting pain, the people are made to feel the government is doing something.
One of the quickest ways to improve governance is to limit all discretionary government spending to a set percent of the yearly budget surplus.
You are unlikely to do anything for anybody if you try to do everything for everybody.
A measurement of your level of engagement is the number of times you are suddenly aroused from sleep, to leave yourself urgent notes, about immediate issues, that should have been resolved long ago, while you were awake.
Major efficiency consulting firms charge as much as $500,000. I charge $5.00. Even without knowing anything about your big business, I can confidently advise that whatever problems exist, they are not the fault of management. Instead: (1) you need to change your logo and website; (2) you need to downsize and redistrict your personnel; and (3) you need to restructure your business model. Finally, if most things are done "in house," then you need to outsource. If most things are outsourced, then you need to do them "in house." I just saved you $499.995.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. (Author = Joseph Stalin)
Always thank those who you pay to fix problems; just be sure that the problems are fixed before you thank them.
If its access is so important as to require security, then establishing security precautions so onerous that it can't be accessed sort of misses the point.
Needlessly onerous processes are a form of entrapment. Bureaucratic drones who demand pointless busy work share in the guilt when otherwise righteous individuals become incentivized to "bend" the rules, which in turn, makes them more susceptible to breaking the rules.
We are truly sorry that it took so long to get this to you. But due to tight time lines, your part is due yesterday. Thank you for your understanding.
Last Tuesday at 1 PM ET was the absolute "datalock" deadline wherein no further changes or corrections whatsoever were permitted, because after this time and date, no possibility existed for anyone to make any future edits. We appreciate that you and your staff put everything else aside to meet our aggressive timelines. However, over the past few weeks, we now find additional edits are necessary. We truly apologize for this inconvenience and ask that you again put everything else aside to answer our additional queries, and meet our newest absolute "datalock" deadline wherein no further changes are permitted. Thank you for your patience.
This e-mail is in follow-up to the e-mail request sent to you at 7 AM this morning. It is now 9 AM. Although we did not call, nor gave you prior warning, this matter is of critical urgency. Please let us know when we can anticipate a response. Thank you in advance for your timely attention to this important matter.
Always ask the fare, before getting in the taxi.
A car drives better when it is clean.
"Perception is reality" does not apply to your bank balance.
A private mirror often reflects a different person than a public snapshot.
If you can remember every detail of events that took place 10 - 20 years ago, then you either have an extraordinary memory, or you haven't done much in the past couple of decades.
Employing someone who works, but does not produce is like being treated by a doctor who orders lots of tests, but does not heal.
Do not tell me how hard you work; tell me how much you get done. (Author = James J. Ling)
After the money, then what?
Other than money, what do you have to offer?
You have more opportunity to be a nice person when you are the boss. You have more opportunity to be perceived as a nice person when someone else is the boss.
Don't you worry about how your prolonged absence affects all of our pay, jobs, and lives; what's important is that we all be compassionate about your personal circumstance.
When surrounded by exalted afters, it is both motivational and frustrating to be perceived as a before, even when the perception is from oneself.
If you are inspired to be more than you are, then aspire. If you conspire so others will perceive you as you were, then expire.
If the business is sound, a cyclical downturn should be viewed as an opportunity, if not obligation, to engage transiently under-utilized resources in upgrading operations in preparation for the inevitable upturn.
When too much is not enough: simplify.
Do something, unless doing nothing is the something you intended to do.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. (Calvin Coolidge)
Don't tell me it can't be done, when what you really mean is you don't know how to do it.
If you are a 5' 11" adult who wears shoes with 1 inch heels, then you will appear 6 feet tall. However, you will never actually be 6 feet tall, no matter how committed you are, and no matter hard you try.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. (Author = Henry Ford)
The last items may not be the most time-consuming, but they do consume the most time.
Don't sacrifice the good for want of the perfect. (Author = Unknown)
Whenever you stand your ground, prepare for your ground to be moved to interesting places.
Most of my real work begins at 1 PM. That's because I spend 7 AM to 1 PM responding to emails I received from 6 PM the night before.
You cannot be "pro-job" if you are anti-business.
An anti-business mentality is devastating to the homeless.
Resistance to change is easiest, safest, and largely insulates you from blame from the inevitable decay that precedes the predictable demise. Pursuit of change is hard work, risky, and potentially costly from the inevitable screw-ups that predictably occur during growth and evolution. The choice is an inevitable death or a challenging life.
Self control is not losing it when someone forgives you for something you didn't do.
If your prices are too high, and your quality is poor, then you will lose business and income. One response is to raise your prices even more, in hopes that most of your bills are received by lower level employees who don't care about your high prices or poor quality.
Assumptions by the press regarding the state of the nation is dependent of the political party in power. If Republicans are in power, then the nation is militarily strong, so safe that security measures are excessive, and businesses are doing better than they should. If Democrats are in power, then homelessness, environmental concerns, and the human tragedy of war, unemployment, and poverty no longer exist.
Any activist organization compelled to claim it is nonpartisan, is partisan.
As a mid-level administrator for big business, you likely have dependent small businesses who do not charge by the hour. If you want to implement a new mandatory website or computer system, then it is not necessary, nor is it cost effective to expend your resources to ensure the system works before implementation. It is best testing to require your vendors to immediately begin using your new systems - ready or not. In this way, you benefit from having your vendors expend their resources (not yours) to test your systems. Most of all, upper management can be re-assured that your new business systems were implemented in a timely manner, and are now officially "online."
Upper mangement's timelines puts pressure on you to be more efficient. To avoid being held to the same standards you expect of your vendors, one option is to demand your vendors complete their tasks within an unreasonable amount of time after you finally get things to them. If you are already doing this, then another option is to issue documented mandates, demanding your vendors complete their tasks before you get things to them. While logistically impossible for them to comply, using this approach, the record will ultimately show it was your vendors who failed to complete their tasks within the desired time period.
If you are big business, tell your small business vendors of your stellar commitment to privacy. Then insist your vendors sign an agreement that you can share their corporate records, birth dates, social security numbers, passport numbers, and dental records with anyone of your choosing, without their consent, and entirely at your discretion.
In order to save me time, please call my assistant so that you can schedule time to meet with me, about a project that benefits me, at a time convenient for me. Thanks!
Thank you for taking your time to call my assistant to rearrange your schedule at my request, so you could meet with me, at a time I requested, about a project that benefits me. Unfortunately, I cannot meet at the time I said I was available and at the time I scheduled. Please call my assistant back to schedule another time to meet with me, at a time more convenient for me. Thank you again for your understanding of my busy schedule, and I look forward to me speaking with you.
In order to demonstate our respect for your time and show our appreciation for your business, attached is a survey that will help us better serve you. It should take no more than an hour for you to complete.
Thank you for arranging your travel schedule and canceling other opportunities to meet with us during the upcoming meeting, at our request, for our benefit, and without reimbursement or pay. Unfortunately, something more important for us has arisen, and we are no longer able to meet with you at the scheduled time and place we chose. We apologize for the inconvenience. Would you have any other time to meet? We hope to hear from you soon!
Oppressors forget more quickly than the oppressed.
As of this morning, I'm not a bigot anymore. So why are you still obsessed about yesterday?
It takes lots of research to discover happiness.
Putting yourself out there makes you an open target.
I may be dysfunctional, but less so than others, and I mean well.
Our government is supposed to represent the people, not rule the people.
The purpose of advertising is to attract customers, not to impress others with your creativity.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. (Author = Calvin Coolidge)
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. (Author = Calvin Coolidge)
I am not sure if my life is an experience, a lesson, or a test. But I am sure that when I experience a life lesson, I am not the only one being tested.
If you are stressed by entrusting your fate to doctors and lawyers, try dealing with contractors.
Destiny is pathed by bridges built, less bridges burned.
News "reporters" destined for nothingness are those so needy of peer-approval that they define "objectivity" through negativism, and measure "success" through the extent by which they harm innocents via vile exploitation of first amendment privileges.
Its unfortunate you were irreparably harmed by my errors. But the good news is that through this experience, I might be less likely to harm someone else the same way in the future.
I hope to be so rich one day that I will never have to not work again.
My free time is apparently an open invitation to anyone who finds out about it.
Whether real or perceived, disrespect is the great motivator.
Zealots are blessed by the potential to affect history, but cursed by the possibility of failing to change tomorrow, by today.
Advertisement is a business expense that provides the greatest chance for monetary gain, and the greatest risk for financial loss.
A profitable business model is providing services to the Northeast, while living somewhere else.
Business folks prioritize the flights; marketing folks prioritize the restaurant.
Broaden your life with purpose; focus your work with diversity.
If you sell pencils for a million dollars a piece, then you only need to sell one. (Author = Unknown)
Good governance is a balance between doing things, and keeping things from being done.
I believe something will actually get done, only about a year after it actually got done.
I could be more understanding, if I better understood.
Opinions are more valuable when they are truthful.
Regarding a problem that arose while I was having a bad dream, I sent myself an email so I could to deal with with it in the morning, as I really wasn't in the most effective position to fix it while I was sleeping.
In contrast to government, if small business policies fail, then it is the small business who pays the price, not the customers.
When business fails, the market has concluded the policies were wrong. When government fails, the politicians conclude the policies were not extreme enough.
Compulsiveness is sleeping better knowing you stayed up all night ensuring everything got done.
I tried to fix my mistake that harmed you; so you should thank me.
You're nobody, unless you're somebody.
Nothing like a funeral to make you wish you were dead.
It is easier to influence what a person does, than to change who a person is.
Life is complicated; people are more complicated.
Life would be easier, if not for the living.
I spend half my time preparing to be twice as efficient.
Audits improve perfection.
The good thing about internal audits, is that they find things. The bad thing about internal audits is that they find things.
As an external auditor, you are in a unique position to either throw them a rope to safety, or string them up for a hanging. |
