Management Quotes
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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
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I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
Maurice Flanagan
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It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
Lu Wei
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I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
Chance The Rapper
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I have a clear bias for international, global experience. On my management team, everybody has two or three countries they've lived and worked in.
Dinesh Paliwal
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Rickover management objectives:
Hyman G. Rickover
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In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.
Walther Rathenau
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There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
Bill Keller
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Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.
William Penn
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The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.
George E. P. Box
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
William Hazlitt
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I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.
Cobi Jones
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Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
Clayton Christensen
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
Jimmy Wales
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Management has no divine rights.
Walter Reuther
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Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.
Jeff Perry
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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
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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
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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
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Hate is a strong word so I don't really hate the quality of somebody, I just don't like being late so I don't like if other people are late as well. Time management is key!
Earl Bamber
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Management is the spine around which all the rest takes shape.
Albert J. Dunlap
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
Lauren Graham
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There are no more holes in my management lineup.
Oscar Munoz
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
George Packer