Management Quotations..

• I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don’t think the derogatory ‘‘managed relationships’’. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can’t be money, and it should not be money.
  Anil Ambani # Work, Relationships, Management, Emotional, Feelings, Money Quotes
• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
  Bernard Arnault # Talent, Success, Inspirational, Management, Creative Quotes
• Talented, experienced leaders like these, who have stepped forward and committed to the critical task of transforming urban school systems, offer new promise to raising student achievement for every student in our urban centers. We are excited to train this new class with the skills necessary to effectively manage an urban school district.
  Eli Broad # Talent, Leadership, Urban, School, Reform, Achievement, Teaching, Management, Success Quotes
• There are as many Scottish roads to Socialism as there are predictions of Britain's economic doom - but most of them demand three things: a coherant plan for an extension of democracy and control in society and industry which sees every reform as a means to creating a socialist society; a harnessing of the forces for industrial and community self-management within a political movement; and a massive programme of education by the Labour Movement as a whole.
  Gordon Brown # Economic, Planning, Democracy, Control, Society, Management, Politics, Education Quotes
• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
  Warren Buffett # Money, Company, Management, Buying, Stock Market Quotes
• 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 # Learning, Management, Customers, Leadership, Success, Important Quotes
• To make a small business work you need considerable knowledge, skill, management, experience, as well as a high level of commitment, plenty of hard work, access to finance, and some good luck.
  Paul Clitheroe # Knowledge, Business, Work, Skill, Management, Experience, Finance, Commitment Quotes
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
  Stephen Covey # Leadership, Quality, Management Quotes
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
  Stephen Covey # Management, Success, Leadership, Determined Quotes
• We seldom care about what a firm makes- whether it is cheap weapons, poisonous pesticides, or vacuous entertainment. As long as it makes profits, we endorse its management.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Ethics, Profit, Company, Management Quotes
• We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi # Management, Learning, Improvement Quotes
• Successful leaders don't start out asking, "What do I want to do?" They ask, "What needs to be done?" Then they ask, "Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?"
  Peter Drucker # Success, Leadership, Questions, Management Quotes
• Don't try to be somebody else. By now you have your style. This is how you get things done.
  Peter Drucker # Management, Thinking Quotes
• Reengineering is a way of seeing the processes of the firm.
  Peter Drucker # Change, Management Quotes
• It is the opportunity for business to develop managers far more effectively than any company or university can.
  Peter Drucker # Opportunity, Business, Company, Management Quotes
• A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant--and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.
  Peter Drucker # Employee, Management, Weakness, Strong Quotes
• A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
  Peter Drucker # Management, Focus, Optimistic, Encouragement Quotes
• Information flow is the lifeblood of your company because it enables you to get the most out of your people and learn from your customers.
  Bill Gates # Information, Company, Management, Customers Quotes
• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
  Bill Gates # Company, Ideas, Opportunity, Internet, Change, Management Quotes
• The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
  Bill Gates # Management, Employee, Action, Communication Quotes
• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.
  Carlos Slim Helu # Improvement, Company, Management, Teamwork Quotes
• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
  Lee Iacocca # Management, Employee Quotes
• The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
  Lee Iacocca # Management, Ambition Quotes
• I would sit in the chair behind the desk and dream I was the CEO.
  Magic Johnson # Business, Management, Dreams, Visualization Quotes
• We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
  Ingvar Kamprad # Company, Woman, Management, Decisions Quotes
• Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky # Skills, Management, Rich, Salary Quotes
• No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
  Calvin Klein # Experience, Management, Company, Business Quotes
• In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.
  Ray Kroc # Experience, Management, Mistakes Quotes
• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.
  Ray Kroc # Business, Quality, Management Quotes
• We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.
  Kenneth Lay # Good, Motivate, Management, Employee Quotes
• I'm very careful about who I manage. I don't agree to manage someone and hope for the best. If it doesn't feel right, it usually isn't.
  Max Markson # Clients, Management Quotes
• Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.
  Chuck Martin # Knowledge, Work, Decisions, Management, Business Quotes
• It's not enough just to be flexible in matters at work. With the changing social contract between employee and employers, managers must also remain more flexible in their personal careers.
  Chuck Martin # Work, Employee, Management Quotes
• Even though most senior executives and managers feel they are more valued today than a few years ago by the people they work for, that value still can be increased.
  Chuck Martin # Management, Value, Inspirational Quotes
• In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.
  Lakshmi Mittal # Buying, Best, Management Quotes
• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
  Rupert Murdoch # Company, Decisions, Management, Strong Quotes
• The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
  Rupert Murdoch # Management, Leadership Quotes
• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
  Rupert Murdoch # Leadership, Management, Responsibility, Employee Quotes
• I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
  Rupert Murdoch # Management, Product Quotes
• We don't want to be controlled by fund managers looking for quarterly results and bonuses.
  Rupert Murdoch # Control, Management Quotes
• Managers tend to be what they do. Employees are who they are. They don't define themselves by their jobs. Managers define themselves by what they do. That's a huge difference.
  Suze Orman # Job, Employee, Management Quotes
• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
  Larry Page # Company, Management, Employee Quotes
• If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
  Larry Page # Management, Company, Results, Organization Quotes
• There are no excellent companies. The old saw "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" needs revision. I propose: "If it ain't broke, you just haven't looked hard enough." Fix it anyway.
  Tom Peters # Company, Improvement, Excellent, Management Quotes
• How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality and constant improvement?
  Tom Peters # Management, Products, Improvement, Encouragement Quotes
• If you aren't reorganizing, pretty substantially, once every six to twelve months, you're probably out of step with the times.
  Tom Peters # Management, Change Quotes
• Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
  Tom Peters # Management, Change, Improvement Quotes
• If you are not reconfiguring your organization to become a fast-changing, high-value-adding creator of niche markets, you are simply out of step.
  Tom Peters # Change, Company, Management, Creative Quotes
• Celebrate- informally and formally- the "small wins" that are indicative of the solid day-to-day performance turned in by more than 90 percent of you work force.
  Tom Peters # Winning, Employee, Management Quotes
• The self-managing team should become the basic organizational building block.
  Tom Peters # Management Quotes
• I strongly urge that any boss get personally involved in every promotion in his organization, even those three or four layers down.
  Tom Peters # Marketing, Management Quotes
• You are out of tune with the times if you are in the office more than one-third of the time.
  Tom Peters # Management Quotes
• Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
  Tom Peters # Encouragement, Leadership, Management Quotes
• It's crucial for managers to know the supreme value of their employees.
  Tony Robbins # Management, Employee, Value Quotes
• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
  John Rockefeller # Leadership, Management, Good Quotes
• In our offices we have no areas off limits to anyone - cleaners are welcome to use our executive board-room for meetings.
  Anita Roddick # Management Quotes
• The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
  Anita Roddick # Problems, Management, Communication, Challenging Quotes
• Running a company is rather like a marriage. When it's going well, it's fantastic. When it's not, it's absolutely miserable.
  Anita Roddick # Company, Management, Business, Challenging Quotes
• I believe that deep down most of us feel very insecure about the way we manage our finances.
  Annette Sampson # Belief, Management, Finance Quotes
• With more than half the female population now working, and a growing number of small businesses being set up by women, we've had to learn to manage our money.
  Annette Sampson # Business, Work, Woman, Learning, Money, Management Quotes
• More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied.
  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer # Crisis, Management, Nation, Organization, Military, Teamwork Quotes
• As the chairman and a shareholder, I have a duty and responsibility to create long-term value and achieve short-term returns for all shareholders.
  Li Ka Shing # Management, Stocks, Responsibility, Creative, Achievement Quotes
• I started with identifying within the fluidity of Chinese philosophical thinking and the science of western management, the co-ordinates upon which we could format a seamless management structure. Building on this foundation, the company structure becomes a life-force that supports the development of each division of business.
  Li Ka Shing # Thinking, Life, Management, Company, Business Quotes
• Monopoly...is a great enemy to good management.
  Adam Smith # Management Quotes
• I don't carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.
  Donald Trump # Work, Management Quotes
• Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.
  Donald Trump # Good, Employee, Management Quotes
• Learning is a new beginning we can give to ourselves every day. A know-it-all is like a closed door. I keep the door to my office open. It's symbolic of the way I choose to think, and it's the way I operate.
  Donald Trump # Learning, Thinking, Management Quotes
• A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.
  Sun Tzu # Wisdom, Smart, Skill, Management, Victory Quotes
• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
  Sun Tzu # Spie, Enemy, Bribe, Smart, Art of War, Management Quotes
• Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
  Sun Tzu # Management, Organization Quotes
• Before at GE, we generally used to tell people what to do. And they did exactley what they were told to do, and not one other thing. Now we are constantly amazed by how much people will do when they are not told to do by management.
  Jack Welch # Management, Company Quotes
• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.
  Jack Welch # Opportunity, Salary, Management Quotes
• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
  Jack Welch # Management, Decisions, Job, Problems, World Quotes
• You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
  Jack Welch # Growth, Management Quotes
• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
  Jack Welch # Best, Idea, Management, Intelligent Quotes
• An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
  Jack Welch # Management Quotes
• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
  Jack Welch # Job, Talent, Management, Improvement Quotes

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