Management Quotes

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

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

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of ...

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another pe...

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready it goes on because it’s 11:30.

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what y...

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, s...

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what ...

Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers: People don't...

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. T...

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break th...

The Four Keys of Great Managers:1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply ex...

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal...

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, l...

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations...

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The...

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating reperc...

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business sid...

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoe...

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship ...

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive tha...

Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controll...

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the fina...

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder ...

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so t...

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and se...

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air...

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or s...

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal compet...

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is li...

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effo...

If the essential task of middle managers is reinvention, when is that task to be carried out? The an...

Managers who inspire extraordinary loyalty from their people tend to be highly charismatic, humorous...

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to...

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya,...

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad econ...

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset driv...

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody...

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sord...

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and y...

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

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach be...

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "...

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost over...

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robb...

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational chang...

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide a...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.