Management Quotes

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

Time is the only commodity that matters.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.

Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.

We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it.

A goal without a method is nonsense.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.

In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.