Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Management

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.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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

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.

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

Gould, Tim

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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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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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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A manager is an assistant to his men.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Hayes, James L.

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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 govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Mccarthy, Joe

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jackson, Reggie

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

Louis XIV

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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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

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

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.