Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Gould, Tim

Best Quotes about Management

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

Heller, Robert

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jackson, Reggie

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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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 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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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 only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Acheson, Dean

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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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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Hayes, James L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.