Management Quotes

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

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.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

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.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

We must understand variation.

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

All of management is about self-confidence

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

A rule should suit the purpose.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

A day may sink or save a realm.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

To copy is to invite disaster.

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.