Management Quotes

• 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
  • Management
  • Combination
  • Traders

• There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Power
  • Way

• 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

• The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Business
  • Job
  • Book

• Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Management
  • Unions
  • Adam And Eve

• Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • Ideas
  • Sides
  • Instinct

• So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Boy
  • Management
  • Prince Charming

• I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Decision

• The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

  

  William L. McKnight
  • People
  • Management
  • Mistakes

• I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.

  

  Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
  • Management
  • Learned
  • Disciplines

• A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Interesting
  • Boy
  • Management

• It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Wealth
  • Modern
  • Investment

• The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges of getting promoted into management is negotiating the tension between the desire to please the person who promoted you while still remaining true to yourself. The tension is normal, and the fact that you feel it is probably indicative of why you were promoted.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Desire
  • Challenges
  • Boss

• My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

  

  Myron Scholes
  • Security
  • Research
  • Academic

• 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
  • Involved

• Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

  

  William Hunter
  • Quality
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• What I find in a creative company is while there is a desire to build a management foundation that can feel clear and consistent, the unique product we're in Illumination Entertainment making doesn't always allow for that. So rather than following management strategy that talks about building your structure and then staffing that structure, I tend to build the structure around the strengths of the individual people we have.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • People
  • Desire
  • Unique

• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • People
  • Management
  • motivation

• I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• 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

• If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

  

  Eric Sink
  • Management
  • Committee
  • Monkeys

• I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.

  

  Neeme Jarvi
  • Political
  • Hate
  • Proud

• When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • People
  • Middle
  • Fitbits

• There are no more holes in my management lineup.

  

  Oscar Munoz
  • Management
  • Holes

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