C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Country
  • American
  • Management

• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Management
  • Feet
  • Short

• We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Financial

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Management

• I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Pain
  • Best
  • Management

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• 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
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Management

• I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moment

• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Management
  • Objectives

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Management

• 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
  • War
  • Bad
  • House

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

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Best
  • Wise
  • Management

• The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • American
  • Community
  • Best

• When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Team
  • Change
  • Management

• Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.

  

  Jason Dolley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

  

  William Shenstone
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Management

• The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow - the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.

  

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • People
  • inspirational
  • Management

• Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

  

  Dick York
  • God
  • She
  • Wall

• Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Up
  • Why

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function