Top 100 People Management Quotes
#2. Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.
Rehan Waris
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. People who kill time are themselves not alive.
Amit Abraham
#7. Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.
Bob Proctor
#8. We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
W. Edwards Deming
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
Bob Selden
#12. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Mary Kay Ash
#13. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
Donny Deutsch
#14. Managers are people who know what they want.
Leaders are people who get what they want.
Bogdan Vaida
#15. You seriously lack people skills. (Fang)
And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#16. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#17. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.
Pearl Zhu
#18. I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.
Luther Allison
#19. 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
#20. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.
Michael Delaware
#21. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#27. Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#28. 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
#31. Now-people" are winners; they say "now" and they do it "now"! Do not delay.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. 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
#33. Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.
Matthew Stewart
#34. 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
#35. I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are among the most valuable to its continued existence. They alone move the economy of a nation.
Michael Delaware
#36. Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough.
Marcus Buckingham
#37. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#38. 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
#39. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#40. People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
W. Edwards Deming
#41. The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.
Brian Tracy
#43. The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)
Vineet Nayar
#44. Do not tend to hire only people who see what you see. Such a tendency may lead to a decline in operating profit, and even bankruptcy.
Eraldo Banovac
#45. Every person is unique, put the right people with the right capability to the right position to solve the right problems.
Pearl Zhu
#46. I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.
Andy Serkis
#47. In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
Bernard Jensen
#48. When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay. The
Christian Rudder
#49. I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.
Roger Ailes
#50. Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.
Richard Branson
#51. People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.
Mark W. Boyer
#52. People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
George Carey
#53. Some people exert more energy on less important things; some people exert less energy on less important things.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.
Cody Johnson
#56. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#57. Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.
Donald Trump
#58. I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
Gavid Hood
#59. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.
Henry Mintzberg
#60. Typical Type A behavior. I was obsessed with time management. I didn't like people waiting for me. Worse, I hated waiting for others, but since I always arrived ridiculously early, I spent a lot of time waiting; hence, I always carried a book with me.
T.B. Markinson
#62. The worst possible approach to a problem is waiting until it becomes overwhelming or irreversible, and that is exactly what many people do. They put dealing with stress on the backburner until they start to experience all the worst symptoms of stress, and by then, it may be too late!
Gudjon Bergmann
#63. It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#64. The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#65. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
Auliq Ice
#66. It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.
David Ogilvy
#67. Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
Bill Joy
#68. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...
Sandhya Jane
#69. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.
Meg Whitman
#70. When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better.
John Eldredge
#71. Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time.
Vishwas Chavan
#72. How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.
Shirley Manson
#73. The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.
Phil Donahue
#74. True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.
James D. Robinson III
#75. I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.
Jess Glynne
#76. Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.
Max McKeown
#77. I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.
Peter Drucker
#79. Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Paul Gitwaza
#80. My management style is there is no such thing as non-important people in the company.
Mickey Drexler
#81. I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#82. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#83. The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.
Richard Leakey
#84. Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#85. Healthy people know not to gorge on anger. At the end of the day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it's an easier choice the next time.
Steve Goodier
#86. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#87. Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
Ron Livingston
#88. One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.
Pearl Zhu
#89. The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.
Pearl Zhu
#90. People who are bad at time management. If you say you're going to be somewhere at a certain time, be there!
Mike Holloway
#91. When someone tells you they're too busy, it's not that they mismanage their time, it's that you're not a priority.
Rob Liano
#92. If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.
Zedd
#93. Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness
Rajasaraswathii
#94. Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.
AbdulNasir
#96. A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
W. Edwards Deming
#97. You don't think that perhaps you have anger management issues?"
"Punching people is managing my anger.
Suzanne Wrightt
#98. When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.
Barbara Marciniak
#99. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Clayton Christensen
#100. Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.
Pearl Zhu
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