Management Quotes

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

~ Toni Sorenson

I am fascinated at how much time we spend doing things that we don’t enjoy.

~ Daniel Willey

Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

~ Greg Satell

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

~ Vijay Dhameliya

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

~ John Bloomfield Jervis

I call these lessons ‘learned on the fly’ because the knowledge gained from the experiences connected with them were very much akin to the spirit of the centerfielder in baseball running backward at full speed, looking towards the heavens, trying to not lose sight of the ball or fail to notice the sensation of gravel from the warning track under his cleats as he knowingly approaches the blindside impact of an outfield wall. His focused intention guides him into trying to make the catch that will save the game for his team, his city and the harmony of the moment, despite the foreboding threat of a pending collision. Decisions in these situations are made in an instant. One weighs the purpose of the game, the success of the catch and one’s own safety of survival in a fleeting moment, and in all hopes one lives to tell about it in the glow of great success.

~ Michael Delaware

Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

~ Jim Butcher

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.

~ Marcus Buckingham

People. Products. Profits. In that order.

~ Ken Goldstein

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

~ Marcus Buckingham

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.

~ Marcus Buckingham

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

~ Ajeet Pratap Maurya

The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.

~ Dov Seidman

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

~ Peter Drucker

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

~ Kin Hubbard

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

~ Warren Buffett

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

~ Michael Eisner

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

~ Cheryl Crawford

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.

~ Lady Gregory

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

~ Wangari Maathai

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

~ Tina Brown

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

~ James Cash Penney

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

~ Fred Wilson

Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

~ Li Shufu

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

~ Bruce Dern

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

~ Stephen Bannon

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

~ Charles C. Mann

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

~ Clay Clark

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

~ Lee Iacocca

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

~ Samuel Wilson

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

~ Wendy Kopp

Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.

~ Andrew Tan

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

~ Chris Hardwick

I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

~ Matt Mickiewicz

Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.

~ Chey Tae-Won

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

~ Peter L. Bergen