Management Quotes

Management Quote of the day

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Be candid with everyone.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

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.

It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.

Manage the cause, not the result.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.