Management Quotes

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

~ Barry Sanders

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

~ Warren Bennis

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.

~ Greg Brenneman

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

~ John C. Maxwell

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

~ Bruce Pittman

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

~ Peter Drucker

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

~ Patch Adams

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

~ Florence Nightingale

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

~ Colin Powell

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

~ Drew Houston

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

~ Ian Mckellen

Cerner's focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.

~ Neal Patterson

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

~ Amelia Barr

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

~ Stephen Covey

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

~ Tom Peters

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

~ James Macgregor Burns

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 to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

~ John P. Kotter

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

~ Steve Case

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.

~ George Packer

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

~ Travis Bradberry

Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.

~ Sachin Bansal

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

~ Kenneth H. Cooper

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

~ Ben Horowitz

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

~ Charlie Munger

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

~ Tena Desae

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

~ Henry Cavill

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

~ Anita Roddick

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

~ John Doolittle

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

~ Hugh Jackman

Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.

~ Charles M. Schwab

Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.

~ Jacob Rothschild

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

~ Steven Sinofsky

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

~ Henrik Fisker

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

~ Linus Torvalds

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

~ Marissa Mayer

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

~ Mike Mccue