Management Quotes · Page 144

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

— J. D. Trout

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

— Steven Sinofsky

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

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

— Tom Peters

Under my administration, Louisiana veterans can rest assured that veterans matter personally to me.

— John Bel Edwards

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

— Anonymous

My manager told me that a kid who was in a coma woke up after ten days when they played him one…

— Tricky

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

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

— Heather Matarazzo

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled…

— Michael Burry

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting…

— Robert Heller

As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week…

— Bob Beckel

My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM,…

— Tino Sehgal

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view The…

— Anonymous

It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy…

— Wayne D. Dosick

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

— James P. Gorman

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their…

— Shawn Achor

In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.

— Max Lucado

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

— Stephen Covey

“Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At”

— Ben Horowitz

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

— Lucy Stone

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are – you can only accomplish finite with two hands and one brain. To scale heights,…

— Jag Randhawa

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

— Charles Soule

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to…

— Freddie Mercury

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

One day, after a big music meeting, my manager took me to Sephora and said I could get whatever I wanted, which…

— Kim Petras

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

— Alfie Kohn

Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration.

— Dominic Raab

“Effective management must be directed at getting what one wants, not getting rid of what one does not want.”

— Anonymous

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

— James Cash Penney

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

— Ken Livingstone

Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want…

— Paul Pierce

My concerns have always been to do the best job I can. But I am conscious that I'm a black manager and…

— Chris Hughton

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

— Ben Horowitz

Why don't law firms use project management software to track where they are in the process of completing a deal and let…

— Justin Kan

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management;…

— Clayton Christensen

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has…

— Susan Collins

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

— William Howard Taft