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The objective of education is learning, not teaching
— Russell L. Ackoff
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.
— Russell L. Ackoff
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
— Mike Rowe
I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.
— Mark Knopfler
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
— Robert W. Service
You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
— Russell L. Ackoff
Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.
— Russell L. Ackoff
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
— Russell L. Ackoff
Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
— Russell L. Ackoff
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.
— Russell L. Ackoff
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.
— Russell L. Ackoff
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.
— Russell L. Ackoff
So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.
— Russell L. Ackoff
When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.
— James Turner
