Management Quotes

• One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Management
  • Time Management

• The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Imagination
  • Management
  • Prosperous

• Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

  

  G. Richard Wagoner Jr.
  • Done
  • Management

• High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

  

  Franco Modigliani
  • Risk
  • Safety
  • Economy

• We treat the management-to-workforce relationship as very important and will continue to invest in that relationship.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Management

• When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.

  

  Jeryl Prescott
  • School
  • Couple
  • Bored

• The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

  

  Anthony Noto
  • Help
  • Today
  • Financial

• I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • Management
  • Motherhood

• While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Risk
  • Management

• Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Good
  • Important
  • Understanding

• The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

  

  Jon Evans
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Planning

• The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • Financial
  • Management

• Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without software like it today. It is a project information management system that helps people develop a solution to a problem with many parts to track.

  

  John C. Mather
  • People
  • Today
  • Management

• Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Success
  • Past
  • Management

• Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Management

• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Experience
  • Romantic
  • Management

• For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

  

  John Taylor Gatto
  • Training
  • Management

• The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Participation

• I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

  

  Bob Hawke
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Management

• Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Thoughts
  • Management
  • Elite

• For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Appreciate
  • Glasses

• Rickover management objectives:

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Management

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