Quotes About Business And Management

#1. The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

Warren Bennis

#2. A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

Konosuke Matsushita

#3. One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

Anita Roddick

#4. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.

Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

#5. Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Michael Sheen

#6. We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.

Lolly Daskal

#7. In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

Ben Horowitz

#8. The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Peter Drucker

#9. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.

Paul Gibbons

#10. The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.

Amit Kalantri

#11. Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Vivek Wadhwa

#12. There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Marcus Buckingham

#13. Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.

Pearl Zhu

#14. In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

Kofi Annan

#15. Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Warren Bennis

#16. The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum.

Pearl Zhu

#17. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

Sue Tetzlaff

#18. I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]

Marcus Samuelsson

#19. And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

John Thorn

#20. Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#21. When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

Zig Ziglar

#22. Business is personal and Relationships do matter.

Morag Barrett

#23. Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

Barry Diller

#24. Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#25. IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.

Pearl Zhu

#26. The hardest thing about choosing good names is that it requires good descriptive skills and a shared cultural background. This is a teaching issue rather than a technical, business, or
management issue.

Robert C. Martin

#27. Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

Chuck Martin

#28. The Tanakh teaches that, "The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor". Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.

H.W. Charles

#29. In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

Warren Stephens

#30. While extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time ... is people.

Mark Salsbury

#31. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Denise Moreland

#32. Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

Brian Lawley

#33. Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals.

Shawn Casemore

#34. Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Gary Hirshberg

#35. Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.

Pearl Zhu

#36. I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

Joe Montana

#37. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.

Pearl Zhu

#38. The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Russell Baker

#39. the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles

Linda S. Sanford

#40. A good manager instills staff with self-confidence, teaches them to believe in themselves and helps them to realise their brilliance. Do not ever treat your staff with disrespect. It is competent until proven incompetent; not incompetent til proven competent.

Miya Yamanouchi

#41. When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

Jim McDonough

#42. One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design.

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

#43. Create and communicate absolute clarity of purpose.

Omer Soker

#44. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

Hilarie Owen

#45. When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

Dorethia Conner Kelly

#46. All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

Kevin O'Leary

#47. We must recognize that "happy" is not a business goal. Service providers pursue "happy." Leaders pursue growth, competitive advantage, mission enhancement, and cost management.

Tina Nunno

#48. Unprofessionalism damages the business reputation and tarnishes the trust of society.

Pearl Zhu

#49. I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Gary Hamel

#50. With more than half the population now checking their account balances more often as a direct result of the downturn, and with more of us comparing prices in virtually every market, it is natural to turn budget management into a skill, an accomplishment, a badge of lifestyle success.

Joe Staton

#51. I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

Michael Dell

#52. You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.

Omer Soker

#53. The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.

Pearl Zhu

#54. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#55. A SWOT analysis involves asking, What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

Amanda Lang

#56. Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

David Packard

#57. If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

Anita Roddick

#58. In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

Tony Alessandra

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

Vandana Shiva

#62. What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Sam Altman

#63. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#64. 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.

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Edward Abbey

#69. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.

Pearl Zhu

#70. Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.

David Nelson

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

Fred L. Turner

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

Onyi Anyado

#77. The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Taylor Swift

#78. The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.

Benjamin Graham

#79. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.

Pearl Zhu

#80. Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

Jim Hightower

#81. The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

Arthur Godfrey

#82. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.

Pearl Zhu

#83. In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.

Peter Cundill

#84. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

Omer Soker

#85. Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.

Omer Soker

#86. Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

#87. If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.

Sue Tetzlaff

#88. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Andrew Griffin

#89. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

#90. 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

#91. IT is part of business, and business is becoming IT.

Pearl Zhu

#92. IT and business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other's sentences, to solve the well-defined business problems.

Pearl Zhu

#93. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.

Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder

#94. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#95. Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

Ronald Coase

#96. 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

#97. A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

Phil Harding

#98. Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Carlos Slim

#99. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.

Pearl Zhu

#100. The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.

Pearl Zhu