Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.
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A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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.
What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
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.
I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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