Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Management

Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Mccarthy, Joe

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gould, Tim

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Jackson, Reggie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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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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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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I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Hayes, James L.

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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 man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose