Management Quotes
The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.
The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.
Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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.
The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.