Motivational Quotes

Management

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

Best Quotes about Management

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

Louis XIV

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Heller, Robert

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

Gould, Tim

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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

Teets, John W.

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

Jackson, Reggie

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Schell, Erwin H.

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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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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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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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 man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hayes, James L.

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

Heller, Robert

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

Acheson, Dean

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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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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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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Covey, Stephen R.