Top 100 It Management Quotes
#1. The "Art of Possible" can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT management.
Pearl Zhu
#2. Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you must ask not only what fruit they bring to the world, but what fruit they yield on the inside of your life and your heart. I
Shauna Niequist
#3. As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.
Adam Smith
#4. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#5. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#6. Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.
Bradley Vinson
#7. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#8. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George
#9. Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
Anne Enright
#10. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#11. The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
Michelle Alexander
#12. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.
Mike Mignola
#13. Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.
Aristotle.
#14. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.
Mark W. Boyer
#15. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
Daniel Goleman
#16. If you fail to treat the current time you have wisely and with care, it'll judge you tomorrow harshly since it came to you but you mistreated and abused it.
Assegid Habtewold
#17. When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
Uday Kotak
#18. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
#19. Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
A&E Kirk
#20. There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.
Vanna Bonta
#21. Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.
Mo Ibrahim
#22. The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
George Eliot
#23. Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it.
Brian Lawley
#24. Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#25. It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
Harry Triguboff
#26. Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
Jim Ratcliffe
#27. As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
Sanjay Kumar
#28. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
Pearl Zhu
#29. The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.
Bob Diamond
#30. Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose
Thomas Narofsky
#31. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#32. Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Alex Berenson
#33. Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.
John Ralston Saul
#34. I've worked since it was basically legal to work. I was a waitress on and off for eight years. I worked at Sears; I worked at Abercrombie folding clothes. My dad really instilled good money management habits, and I've saved 10 percent of my paycheck, every paycheck, since I was 15.
Rosanna Pansino
#35. A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
Peter Drucker
#36. My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
#37. If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.
Gary Cohn
#38. Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear.
Leon Courville
#39. Jesus." Blake rubbed his throat. "You have anger management problems. Its like a disease."
"There's a cure and it's called kicking your ass.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#40. Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.
Alcee Hastings
#41. Sometimes, if she was afraid, she'd take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn't paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time.
Dan Krokos
#42. the reason we are so focused on time management as opposed to energy management is because it's easier.
Alan Watkins
#43. a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients.
Jurgen Appelo
#44. It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The
Alastair Reynolds
#45. The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
Amanda Ripley
#46. Forward-thinking organizations seek hybrid professionals who are highly proficient writers, analytical, creative, and tech savvy, with strong competencies in business management, information technology (IT), and human behavior.
Paul Roetzer
#47. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system
Elliot Morley
#48. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#49. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
Auliq Ice
#50. It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.
A.J. Darkholme
#51. The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.
Justin Guarini
#52. We are all equally rich when it comes to the currency of time: 24 hours in a day and not one iota more. It is one of life's most level playing fields, ever devised, from the standpoint of a singular day.
Garry Fitchett
#53. At other places management says, 'Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?' Lewie was not only willing to bet the ranch. He was willing to hire people and let them bet the ranch, too. His attitude was: 'Sure, what the fuck, it's only a ranch.
Michael Lewis
#54. Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss
#55. Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean
#56. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it.
A.J. Compton
#57. To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.
Pearl Zhu
#58. In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
Dan Ariely
#60. Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it.
Alexandra Engellmann
#61. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#62. Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.
Tom DeMarco
#63. First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.
Tom DeMarco
#64. It is the responsibility of sales management to make the job of the sales people as easy as possible. The easiest way to do this is to build momentum. The best way to build momentum is to make it so that each sale makes the next sale easier to land, with less effort and a higher success rate.
David B. Black
#65. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#66. No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.
W. Edwards Deming
#67. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#68. When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
Luke Bryan
#69. In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#70. My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
Uday Kotak
#71. Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
Peter Drucker
#72. I would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former ss monsters However since it is new year's eve and i have lip cancer i will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance
Leonard Cohen
#73. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. Here, take my advise ... I'm not using it." (John Jolliffe)
Dana J Goulston
#75. It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.
Peter Schiff
#76. The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
#77. Although God allows the world to use His great wealth in order that their physical and material needs be met, it is not God's will for the devil's children to control all the money that is in the world.
Paul Silway
#78. I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania
#79. People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.
Eric Dezenhall
#80. Well look who it is, Mr. Management-said-we-can't-have-girlfriends...and his girlfirend
Nikki Godwin
#81. Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.
Bernie Brillstein
#82. Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach and develop it into a more solid form.
Pearl Zhu
#83. It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.
Joseph Addison
#84. The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that's true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it's true of what we need to teach.
Alfie Kohn
#85. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
Harry S. Truman
#86. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.
Ginni Rometty
#87. Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
Yuval Noah Harari
#88. Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.
John Hegarty
#89. The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
Bill Murray
#90. If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#92. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
Scott Hammerle
#93. When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#94. Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the "benefits" of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#95. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.
Peter Drucker
#96. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#97. It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
W. Edwards Deming
#98. It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
John Tukey
#99. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Andrew Griffin
#100. Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.
Buddy Wakefield
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