Motivational Quotes

Management

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

Best Quotes about Management

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

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

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

Blanchard, Ken

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

Jackson, Reggie

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Acheson, Dean

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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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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Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.

Schell, Erwin H.

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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 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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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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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 man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Louis XIV

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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