Management Quotes

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.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

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

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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.