Management Quotes
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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
Yusuf Hamied
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Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
Taiichi Ohno
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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
Clayton Christensen
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Old-style management is irrelevant.
Peter Diamandis
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I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.
Jeremy Irons
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I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.
Marc Rich
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
Bill Frist
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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
Jill Abramson
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Let me deal here with what General Motors includes and with the responsibility that rests on its management.
Alfred P. Sloan
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Pat Travers
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
Walter Wriston
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I joined 3G when I was 24, but I didn't really have much of a management role there. I became C.F.O. when we acquired Burger King, so that was my first time managing people. I had just turned 30.
Daniel Schwartz
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Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.
Scott Adams
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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
Benito Mussolini
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In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
John Ralston Saul
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I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.
Nick van de Wall
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The best doctor, if you're sick, may not be the one that shares your faith. We found that out to be true at Liberty with the years of struggles with the accountants and lawyers we brought in and the financial management.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
Warren Bennis
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
Ha-Joon Chang
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
Marissa Mayer
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I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
James Belushi
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This state of affairs is not an inevitable consequence of a decreased capacity to produce wealth. I see no reason why, with good management, real wages need be reduced on the average. It is the consequence of a misguided monetary policy.
John Maynard Keynes