Management Quotes

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

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.

Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

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.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.