Management Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

A day may sink or save a realm.

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

A rule should suit the purpose.

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

All of management is about self-confidence

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

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

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

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

Without questions, there is no learning.

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

The process is not just the sum of its parts.

Meeting specifications is not enough.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

I always say 'Don't make plans, make options'.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

No worry before its time.

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.