QUOTATION 85
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN ON WHY YOU SHOULD PROVIDE SOLUTIONS NOT PROBLEMS IN ANY REPORT
Use this to remind you that management want to know how to do things not reasons for why they can’t.
John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan (1837–1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States during the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Morgan did not build his vast financial empire by taking no for an answer, as the following quotation demonstrates:
I don’t want a lawyer to tell me what I can’t do. I hire people to tell me how to do what I want to do.
John Pierpont Morgan
WHAT TO DO
- Always remember that organisations want managers who are problem ...
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