Quotes about Consultants

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. Votes: 4

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. Votes: 3

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics. Votes: 2

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants. Votes: 2

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' Votes: 2

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across. Votes: 2

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. Votes: 2

I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut. Votes: 2

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. Votes: 2

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. Votes: 2

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. Votes: 2

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. Votes: 2

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced. Votes: 2

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact. Votes: 2

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. Votes: 2

When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.' Votes: 2

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. Votes: 2

Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy. Votes: 2

You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession. Votes: 2

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. Votes: 2

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 we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late. Votes: 2

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries. Votes: 2

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake. Votes: 2

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants, Votes: 0

People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant. Votes: 0

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits. Votes: 0

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty. Votes: 0

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart." Votes: 0

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Votes: 0

Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy. Votes: 0

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file. Votes: 0

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative. Votes: 0

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters. Votes: 0

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields. Votes: 0

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization. Votes: 0