Top 100 Management's Quotes
#1. Increasingly, management's role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.
Greg Satell
#3. The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
Gary Hamel
#4. Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#5. If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
Akio Morita
#6. The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
Peter Drucker
#7. Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
Andy Grove
#8. We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of 4G systems make Oneida the right company in the right place at the right time.
Peter Schiff
#9. Management's never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management's true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management. - Lastogne
Adam-Troy Castro
#11. All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.
Masaaki Imai
#12. Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.
W. Edwards Deming
#13. Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
Peter Rachleff
#14. A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
Akio Morita
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
Ian Lamont
#18. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
Onyi Anyado
#19. Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#20. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
Mary Schapiro
#21. We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.
Jerry Jones
#22. 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
#23. Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.
Bradley Vinson
#24. In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#25. 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
#26. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#27. 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
#28. Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.
Julie Connor
#29. Top-down management is plan-based, hierarchical, and totalitarian. Bottom-up management is humane, consensual, and egalitarian. Effective
Philip Wik
#30. Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly
James Leal
#31. The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.
Sumantra Ghoshal
#32. 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
#33. People who kill time are themselves not alive.
Amit Abraham
#34. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#35. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
#36. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#37. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Umberto Eco
#38. 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
#39. Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.
Lois P Frankel
#41. 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
#42. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
Pearl Zhu
#43. I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
Warren Bennis
#44. 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.
#45. 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
#46. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
Daniel Goleman
#47. I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
Archie Panjabi
#48. 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
#49. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#50. When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
Uday Kotak
#51. There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
Charlie Munger
#52. 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
#53. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Mark Miller
#54. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#55. Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
A&E Kirk
#56. For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.
Anthony LaPaglia
#57. The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
Douglas McGregor
#59. We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.
Fred L. Turner
#60. You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
William C. Brown
#61. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#62. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.
Irwin Redlener
#63. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.
Frank Partnoy
#64. We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
Harold Leavitt
#65. There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.
Vanna Bonta
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#70. Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
V. Vale
#71. Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
Rob Pike
#72. Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it.
Brian Lawley
#73. Good businesses can survive a little bad management.
Charlie Munger
#75. Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.
Jacob Rothschild
#76. Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.
Jason Jordan
#77. Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.
Bob Proctor
#78. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#79. Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.
Pearl Zhu
#80. Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to.
A.J. Sheppard
#81. Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.
Marc Ostrofsky
#82. Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
Zhang Jindong
#83. Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous, and interactive state.
Pearl Zhu
#84. Your employees know each other better than they know you.
Ben Horowitz
#85. We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
W. Edwards Deming
#87. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
Amit Kalantri
#88. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.
Kip Tindell
#89. Time is our most valuable nonrenewable resource, and if we want to treat it with respect, we need to set priorities.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#90. Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.
Toba Beta
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.
Avinash Narula
#95. 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
#97. Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.
Michael Hyatt
#98. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
Pearl Zhu
#99. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!
Curt Coffman
#100. Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.
William C. Brown
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