Consultants Quotes
The general principle applies to politicians consulting various experts in different ways.
He was one of many who had been profoundly influenced by Spinoza on this critical point. See {624859}.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
Critics, pundits, and social and program evaluators, have—as Deleuze observes—a major vested interest in the outcome of the evaluations—namely their own economic and influential existence. That alone should cast suspicion on all evaluations,
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Describing the nominee for Secretary of Defense, John Tower, who left the Senate to work as a highly paid consultant for defense contractors before being nominated as Secretary:
The really good campaign consultants / strategists, take the reality of the candidate identity and get the most out of the strengths. Attempts to remake of reshape the candidate almost always fail.
As a result of this report, IBM did not acquire the Xerox technology. Xerox went on to place 600,000 units of the machine that Arthur D. Little assessed would be only 5,000. Until IBM pulled out of their Partnership with Microsoft for the development of Windows, the failure to deploy the Xerox process was the largest mistake they had made. It shows that even the best of companies make large errors.
1st Marquees of Halifax. This is a very important quotation because it still has much validity today. The “Prince” is the Monarch, King or Official Heading the State. Savile points out that if the Price does not take the time or make the effort to understand an issue and its complexity, he then must trust his advisors and their opinions rather than have any intelligent and knowledgeable views of his own. In modern times the advice applies to elected officials, executive and legislative. If they do not take time and make the effort to understand a complex issue, they cannot use their own judgment but must accept the judgment of staff, friends, colleagues, party leaders, lobbyists or members of committees who they hope are not also ignorant. In modern legislatures, there are so many different issues in so many areas, that it is very difficult to have the time to make the effort to study all the issues. This problem is compounded with politicians as they tend to spend large amounts of their time fundraising for their next election and simply do not have enough time to study issues. In the Congress for example, most members vote on bills that they have not even read and they end up trusting someone else’s judgment.
