Management Quotes

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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around… — Stephen Covey
Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management. — George H. Morris
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. — James D. Robinson III
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central… — Thomas Naylor
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they… — Jeff Bezos
Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. — Robert Johnson
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which… — John Maynard Keynes
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies… — Kevin Rudd
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. — Edward Kennedy
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and… — James Surowiecki
In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of David Beckham for,… — Pete Gill
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,… — Pete Gill
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not… — Chris Hedges
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.… — Colin Powell
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common… — John Quincy Adams
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis… — Henry Mintzberg
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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