Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Management

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Jackson, Reggie

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Hayes, James L.

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Schell, Erwin H.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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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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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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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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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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