Management Function Quotes

#1. Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. relationships between debtors and creditors brokered or 'intermediated' by increasingly numerous institutions called banks. The core function of these institutions was now information gathering and risk management.

Niall Ferguson

#3. I felt myself in a sticky spot as a daughter and desperately needed a third party, such as a doctor, to address his declining function and end-of-life considerations of safety, comfort, and care management.

Lisa J. Shultz

#4. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#5. I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#6. One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Michael Porter

#8. I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book

Umberto Eco

#9. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.

Liz Weber

#10. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.

Sonya Huber

#11. The smaller the function, the greater the management.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#12. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.

Mary Parker Follett

#13. Love connects; fear separates.

Christine R. Page

#14. Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.

J.G. Ballard

#15. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Bernie Sanders

#16. So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

Martin Amis

#17. It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

Thomas Paine

#18. It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

John P. Kotter

#20. Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

Laurel Nakadate

#21. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

Jane Goodall

#22. loving you is easy and effortless, trust in you is the hard part

S.C. Stephens

#23. The nature of risk may be the single most important argument for the use of quantitative analysis in investment management. Neither Investors nor Analysts can be blamed for this fact. Nor can Harry Markowitz. Nature made risk a quadratic function. Markowitz only discovered it.

William Sharpe

#24. Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

David Stern

#25. Broadly speaking, the KPIs of the organization needs to be the KPIs of the IT function.

Pearl Zhu

#26. 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