Management Quotes
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — Peter Drucker
- People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a… — Peter Drucker
- Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. — Peter Drucker
- A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. — Peter Drucker
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker
- Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. — Peter Drucker
- The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker
- Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. — Peter Drucker
- Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge… — Peter Drucker
- The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out… — Peter Drucker
- Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
- The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. — Meister Eckhart
- It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. — Queen Elizabeth II
- The ancestor of every action is a thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. — Arthur Erickson
- One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for… — Bill Ford
- The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. — Gary Hamel
- Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard. — Gary Hamel
- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Robert A. Heinlein
- The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. — Napoleon Hill
- Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most… — Marilu Henner
- Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or… — Tom Hodgkinson
- Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed.… — Tom Hodgkinson
- I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like… — Hal Holbrook