Quotes and sayings about Management

"People respond well to those that are sure of what they want."

"The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't."

"While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business."

"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."

"Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business."

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

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

"Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession"

"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

"I've actually not read any books on time management."

"I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."

"I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. "

"Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example."

"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."

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion."

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

"Treat employees like they make a difference and they will."

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."

"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."

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

"Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment."

"Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters."

"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 important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."

"If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities."

"Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion."

"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."

"The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers."

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

"Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything—for better or for worse."

"Start with the end in mind."

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

"Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give."

"A bad system will beat a good person every time."

"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."