Top 100 Work Management Quotes
#1. As you grow older, you become faced with the problem of what to with your time
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#3. As humans, we should be able to answer the question: "What do you do with your time?
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#4. Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.
Alan G. Robinson
#5. I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly,
Peter M. Senge
#6. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#8. The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#9. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
Tina Fey
#12. That was the definition of management - getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.
John Elder Robison
#13. You've got little time on earth, make each day count
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#14. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter F. Drucker
#15. Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
Clayton Christensen
#16. Don't allow your life disappear into an abstract mirage
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#18. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.
Etienne Wenger
#19. Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.
Karen Pryor
#21. A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.
Jack Canfield
#22. Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
Jim Butcher
#23. It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.
Stanley Elkin
#24. Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life
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#26. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
#28. The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time
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#29. Until you discover what you can do with your time, you won't know how to go about crucial things
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#30. Wealth is a planned result that requires productive work and dedication. The Tanakh says, "The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want" (CJB, Proverbs 21:5).
H.W. Charles
#31. Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life
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#32. Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
Peter Rachleff
#33. The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired.
I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day.
Make the time, keep at it, and you'll be a real writer before you know it.
Jonathan Maas
#35. I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
Maurice Flanagan
#37. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
Saji Ijiyemi
#38. I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.
Matt Mickiewicz
#39. The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
Donald Luskin
#40. What you do with your time on a daily basis determines how far you will go in life
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#41. In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.
Matthew Stewart
#42. The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
Avinash Persaud
#44. I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
John Seddon
#45. There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.
Tom DeMarco
#46. Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
J. August Richards
#47. You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively
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#48. What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth
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#49. Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time
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#50. It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move.
Annika Sorensen
#52. Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.
Jamie Dimon
#53. There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time ... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.
Richard Koch
#54. Wasting and losing time is equivalent to wasting and losing your life
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#55. In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.
Robert Rubin
#56. If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
John Cage
#57. 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
#59. Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.
Michael Martin Hammer
#60. Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.
Bernard Meltzer
#61. Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.
Eraldo Banovac
#62. Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
Wayne Huizenga
#63. 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
#64. I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
Henry Kravis
#66. I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.
Danielle LaPorte
#67. Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss
#68. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
#69. Richness is the output of lengthy years full of discipline, hard work, persistence and Self-Belief.
Rajasaraswathii
#70. This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
Dirk Kempthorne
#71. Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets
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#72. Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
Simon Sinek
#73. 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
#74. I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
John Legend
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.
Charles Hayes
#79. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#80. By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.
Maynard Webb
#81. The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.
Amit Kalantri
#82. Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. It's an atavistic thing, buried deep in our DNA.
Richard Engel
#83. Getting things done is not always about managing time; It is about finding that magical time of the day when you work at your best level
Vivek Naik
#84. Always make positive use of every second and minute
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#86. If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.
Jeff Smisek
#87. People need to feel safe to be who they are - to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#88. If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and ... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.
Eli Broad
#89. 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
#90. I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#92. Time is a running factor; once it goes, it cannot be reclaimed
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#94. During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.
Sibel Edmonds
#95. I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.
Randy Glasbergen
#96. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.
Nicholas Kristof
#97. In most companies, the best project management skills are found in the IT department, because they work on a project basis all the time.
Dave McNab
#99. Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days
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#100. To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts
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