Management Quotes

• My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Father
  • Genius
  • Management

• 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

• 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
  • Instinct
  • Sides

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Fighting
  • Management
  • Owners

• All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• Michael left because of the Bulls' management, not because he'd lost his love of playing the game.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Game
  • Management
  • Left

• 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

• Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Stupid
  • Financial
  • Strategy

• There are at least five activities that must be kept in balance through proper time management. This is not easy for a busy executive with significant responsibilities, especially in this world of “information overload.” These five activities are: the job, physical fitness, personal time alone, recreation, and social relationships. Also, if they apply, two others—religion and family. If any of these get out of balance, then life gets out of balance. From my own personal experience and observation of others, being a workaholic is the most common area of imbalance...

  

  Hal Moore
  • Job
  • Balance
  • Social relationships

• Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

  

  George Will
  • Problem
  • Management
  • Cubs

• McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

  

  Renee James
  • Security
  • Research
  • Database

• The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Jews
  • Treatment
  • Russian

• 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

• In many respects we have bought companies that are fundamentally strong, but have issues that we believe our management and our expertise can help resolve.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Help
  • Resolve
  • Expertise

• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  

  Mo Udall
  • Country
  • Forever
  • Feelings

• In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put the right amount of effort. This tool can help those looking at Warehouse Management Systems get their arms around this key issue.

  

  Dan Gillmor
  • Effort
  • Helping
  • Arms

• Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Creating

• Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leadership
  • Management

• True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

  

  Dave Snowden
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Interaction

• Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

  

  Nigel Pearson
  • Life
  • Football
  • Management

• That really improves security and reduces management cost.

  

  Bob Muglia
  • Management
  • Security
  • Cost

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