Quotes about management

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

Lasorda, Tommy on management   

"Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow."

Lehr, Lewis on management   

"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment."

Lewis, Sinclair on management   

"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."

Louis XIV on management   

"Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy."

Mccarthy, Joe on management   

"Man is the principal syllable in Management."

Mckenzie, C. T. on management   

"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them."

Menzies, Robert on management   

"Good managers have a bias for action."

Peters, Thomas J. on management   

"Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money."

Proverb, Spanish on management   

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."

Reagan, Ronald on management
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"I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business."

Reichert, Jack E. on management   

"Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission."

Riley, Pat on management   

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

Rockefeller, John D. on management
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"Things refuse to be mismanaged long."

Saying on management   

"Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land."

Schell, Erwin H. on management   

"They that govern the most make the least noise."

Selden, John on management   

"Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become."

Teets, John W. on management   

"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on management   

"A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy."

Townsend, Robert on management
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"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

Truman, Harry S on management   

"Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren't well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn't soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happen on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated."

Unknown, Source on management   

"If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading."

Unknown, Source on management
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"An executive is someone who talks with visitors so the other employees can get their work done."

Unknown, Source on management
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"A manager is an assistant to his men."

Watson, Thomas J. on management   

"I head a nation of a million presidents."

Weizmann, Chaim. on management   

"An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people"

Welch, Jack on management
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