Motivational Quotes

Management

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Management

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Truman, Harry S

The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

Elfrey, Pricilla

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Fry, Stephen

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Jackson, Reggie

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

Heatter, Gabriel

Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.

Lehr, Lewis

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

Gould, Tim

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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Blanchard, Ken

12.

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

Allison, Mary Ann

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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An executive is someone who talks with visitors so the other employees can get their work done.

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Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.

Mccarthy, Joe

17.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

19.

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.

Hayes, James L.

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Covey, Stephen R.

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They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

Buckle, George Earle

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We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be knowledge workers.

Davies, Owen

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.

Esber, Edward

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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Heller, Robert

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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Buffett, Warren

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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Heller, Robert

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A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.

Burns, H.S.M.

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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

Lewis, Sinclair

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.

Iacocca, Lee

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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.

Reichert, Jack E.

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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Lasorda, Tommy

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If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Augustine, Norman

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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

Engst, Adam C.

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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

44.

Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren't well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn't soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happen on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.

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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Riley, Pat

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If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

Beacham, Charles

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people

Welch, Jack

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Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Drucker, Peter F.