Pam Gems's Quotes

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Management must manage!

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.