It Management Quotes

Priority is a function of context.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Management does not know what a system is.

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Jesus was a management expert too.

Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

You can not hear what you do not understand.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Management is prediction.

There must be consistency in direction.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

Time is the school in which we learn.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

The first myth of management is that it exists.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.