Management Quotes
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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
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...the remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
Akio Morita
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Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.
Marc Ostrofsky
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
W. Edwards Deming
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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
Peter Drucker
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Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.
Clayton Christensen
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Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
William Cornelius Van Horne
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The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker
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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
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We share management's vision that the recent regulatory changes, the large presence of Sprint Nextel in the 2.5 GHz band, and the near-term implementation of 4G systems make Oneida the right company in the right place at the right time.
Peter Schiff
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Management's objective is to achieve a return on capital over the long term which averages somewhat higher than that of American industry generally - while utilizing sound accounting and debt policies.
Warren Buffett
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When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.
Elsa Barker
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Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.
Marcia Clark
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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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I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.
Ivan Glasenberg
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Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
Vivek Wadhwa
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Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management.
Bobby Gould
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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
Jill Lepore
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Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
Peter Drucker
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I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.
Mark V. Hurd
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Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.
John Chamberlain
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Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.
Brandon Webb
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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