Motivational Quotes

Management

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

- Teets, John W.

Best Quotes about Management

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

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.

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

Gould, Tim

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Heatter, Gabriel

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Mckenzie, C. T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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They that govern the most make the least noise.

Selden, John

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

Acheson, Dean

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I head a nation of a million presidents.

Weizmann, Chaim.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jackson, Reggie

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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A man is known by the company he organizes.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hooper, Admiral Grace

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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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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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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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Good managers have a bias for action.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schell, Erwin H.

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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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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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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Bonaparte, Napoleon