Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Hayes, James L.

Best Quotes about Management

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

Reagan, Ronald

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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

Buckle, George Earle

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Heller, Robert

Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.

Hewlitt, William

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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

Louis XIV

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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

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Blanchard, Ken

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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gould, Tim

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

Menzies, Robert

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A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.

Teets, John W.

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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hayes, James L.

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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

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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Acheson, Dean

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.