Top 36 Quotes by Matthew Stewart

About Matthew Stewart

These are some quotes by American author Matthew Stewart Philosopher, who was born in 1963.

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

Matthew Stewart

During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

Matthew Stewart

George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.

Matthew Stewart

Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.

Matthew Stewart

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

Matthew Stewart

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Matthew Stewart

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Matthew Stewart

At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.

Matthew Stewart

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.

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.

Matthew Stewart

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.

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.

Matthew Stewart

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