Management Quotes · Page 120

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

— Ben Horowitz

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

— Chris Argyris

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would…

— Wayne Rooney

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.”

— Pearl Zhu

I went to a small guest house. The manager said, 'You want a room with running water? I said, 'What do you…

— Anonymous

Coming back to Tottenham, you feel confident with these players and the manager - the way he talks to you and wants…

— Kieran Trippier

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

— Ron Johnson

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required…

— Curt Flood

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about…

— Heather Matarazzo

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity…

— Phil Crosby

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide…

— Susan Orlean

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to…

— Solomon Burke

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

“The replacement of corporate heads is far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the…

— Andrew S. Grove

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to…

— Bob Seger

“Does that mean that we should never hire or promote an inexperienced manager who had not already learned to do what needs…

— Clayton M. Christensen

“Richard Thaler tells of a discussion about decision making he had with the top managers of the 25 divisions of a large…

— Daniel Kahneman

“What is our winning aspiration? Framing the choice as “winning” rules out mediocrity as an option. If you want to win, you…

— Michael Bungay Stanier

“Time was minutely calculated everywhere in the vast plant so that top managers knew precisely what everyone was supposed to be doing…

— Richard Sennett

“The elevator came to a jerking halt and the doors slid open. A young vault manager was waiting for us. She looked…

— Roger Hobbs

“Since my symptoms began 13 years ago, I’ve tried every form of pain management I could access — NSAIDS, nonopioid analgesics, neurologic…

— Michael Bihovsky

“Now, everybody is searching for managers with a little dose of leadership (not too much but it should be clearly there). Some…

— Elena D. Calin

“AT THE OFFICE “Coworkers who talk too loudly in the office.” “Employees who goof-off and engage in extended personal conversations.” “A manager…

— Deborah Smith Pegues

“The question is not how to get managers’ emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company.”

— Stan Slap

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home

— Ingvar Kamprad

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.”

— Mark W Boyer

I love beyonce, but I hate labels, their managers and contracts.. keep it about music and be respectful to its producers please.

— Afrojack

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

— Spencer W. Kimball

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk…

— Maria Bartiromo

“This was what British administration was doing among the Ibos, making a dozen mushroom kings grow where there was none before.”

— Chinua Achebe

“In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

— Stephen R. Covey

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms…

— Petr Cech

A cohort's 'liberalism' or 'conservatism' is dependent on the success of the presidential administration they come of age under.

— Harry Enten

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and…

— Nolan Bushnell

“there is no reason that a manager shouldn’t be participating in this massive global cross-pollination information cluster-fuck”

— Michael Lopp

Doing what's best for our kids means restoring balance, commonsense and conservation to the management of our natural resources.

— Tony Evers

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or…

— Katharine Whitehorn

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really…

— Robert J. Shiller