Quotes about management

"A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer."

Acheson, Dean on management
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"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."

Allison, Mary Ann on management
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"If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

Augustine, Norman on management   

"If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone."

Beacham, Charles on management   

"A man is known by the company he organizes."

Bierce, Ambrose on management   

"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."

Blanchard, Ken on management   

"As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there."

Blanchard, Ken on management
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"There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on management   

"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on management   

"They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them."

Buckle, George Earle on management   

"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."

Buffett, Warren on management   

"A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements."

Burns, H.S.M. on management
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"Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work."

Conrad, Joseph on management   

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

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle."

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be knowledge workers."

Davies, Owen on management   

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."

Disraeli, Benjamin on management   

"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

Drucker, Peter F. on management   

"Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

Drucker, Peter F. on management   

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

Drucker, Peter F. on management
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

Drucker, Peter F. on management   

"The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him."

Elfrey, Pricilla on management   

"The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?"

Engst, Adam C. on management   

"A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster."

Esber, Edward on management
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"Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on management   

"You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame."

Fry, Stephen on management   

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on management
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"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on management   

"Who can direct when all pretend to know?"

Goldsmith, Oliver on management   

"I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low."

Gould, Tim on management   

"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."

Hardy, Thomas on management   

"Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future."

Hayes, James L. on management
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"The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them."

Heatter, Gabriel on management   

"The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."

Heller, Robert on management   

"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."

Heller, Robert on management   

"Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention."

Hewlitt, William on management   

"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people."

Hooper, Admiral Grace on management
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"The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness."

Iacocca, Lee on management   

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

Iacocca, Lee on management   

"The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are."

Jackson, Reggie on management