Management Quotes

• Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Moral
  • Authority
  • Formal

• It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Style
  • Management
  • Group

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leadership
  • Management

• Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Different
  • Art
  • Brain

• The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Progress

• The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Money
  • Survival
  • Prosperity

• My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Philosophy
  • Sacrifice
  • Planning

• In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • Work
  • America
  • Development

• It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Opinion
  • Safety
  • Loss

• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

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

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Father
  • Genius
  • Management

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leadership
  • Discipline
  • Carrying

• Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity

  

  William Hunter
  • Risk
  • Creativity
  • Employee

• I was a business management major.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Business
  • Management

• If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Say
  • Going To
  • Teleprompter

• We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Friends
  • Band
  • Management

• Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Marketing

• Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Management
  • Strategy
  • Market

• The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Planning
  • Essence
  • Priorities

• If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Management
  • Crisis

• Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Stress
  • Anxiety
  • Weak

• Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Management
  • Development
  • Direction

• My publishing deal is out of Nashville, my management is split between Nashville and Texas, but we are also getting to play eight other states as well as Canada and Europe this year. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself. When people ask me if I'm Texas or Nashville, I tell them I am just Cody Johnson.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Europe
  • Deals
  • Eight

• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

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