Consultants. The 17th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.
A consultant is someone who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time. A bad consultant keeps the watch.
Carl Alley
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
Norman Ralph Augustine
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams
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.
Jesse James Garrett
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.
Jesse James Garrett
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride
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.
Douglas Trumbull
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
Arthur Erickson
We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
Kevin Kelly
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Arnold H. Glasgow
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking.
Anonymous
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
While the doctors consult, the patient dies.
English Proverb
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
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