Motivational Quotes

Management

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

Best Quotes about Management

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Hayes, James L.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schell, Erwin H.

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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 manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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 man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Louis XIV

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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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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.