Management Quotes

1370 Management quotes by 884 unique authors

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management. — Michael Foley
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought… — Peter Cundill
Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about. — Rick Ungar
When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first… — Peter Lynch
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. — Debi Mazar
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try… — John P. Kotter
Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management. — Jim Clemmer
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people… — Luther Allison
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills… — Widad Akrawi
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define… — Marcus Buckingham
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious. — Albert Einstein
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a… — John Kao
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive. — Ricardo Semler
Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process. — Unknown Author
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by… — Robert J. Shiller
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility. — George Soros
The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but… — George E. P. Box
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that… — Russell L. Ackoff
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relations with their people have been assigned a secondary… — William Redington Hewlett
It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right. — Russell L. Ackoff
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity — William Hunter
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard… — Charles Handy
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker

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