Management Quotes

• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Differences

• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Learning
  • Possessed
  • Unthinkable

• I was, as president and chairman of the board, required by law to verify the veracity of the financial figures, the assets under management, the number of outstanding shares, et cetera.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Law
  • Financial
  • Management

• 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
  • Growth
  • Management

• ...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
  • Job
  • Management

• I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

  

  John Rampton
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Management

• I would certainly implement that. Absolutely... There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems... They have to be. They have to be... It's all about management.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Management

• I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present themselves, they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Business
  • Create
  • Give Up

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Management

• The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Management
  • Damage
  • Workers

• 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
  • Wisdom
  • Progress
  • Politics

• I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Management
  • Diversity
  • Senior

• Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Management

• 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

• A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Great
  • Management

• Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Trump

• 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
  • Giving
  • Problem
  • Quality

• Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • School
  • Investment
  • Bankers

• Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Management

• The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

  

  James Fallows
  • Single
  • Management
  • Optimum

• Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

  

  Anthony Stafford Beer
  • Problems
  • Organization
  • Talents

• I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Work
  • Business
  • Management

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