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"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
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"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well."
"One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't."
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
"Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value."
"20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut."
"I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing."
"There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw."
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"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."
"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."
"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
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