Quotes About Management

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Si aprovechamos bien tan sólo el 20 % de nuestro tiempo, no nos quedaremos cortos.

When they buy businesses, all venture capitalists look hard at the technology, the management, the market. They get into all sorts of complex investigation. They hire consultants to assess the technology and the market, accountants to crawl over the books, and lawyers to tie the managers in knots and do whatever lawyers do. I did none of those things. I knew Betfair was a star business. That was enough for me.

Un gerente liberador debe ser por completo honesto con su gente; debe apoyarla, ser amistoso y también muy exigente.

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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

Although it's difficult to measure an architect's impact on a project, if developers consistently ignore their guidance and management doesn't buy-in to their recommendations, the "rightness" of their guidance will do little to advance their career. Experienced architects understand that they need to "sell" their ideas and need to communicate effectively in order to do that.

Hatch never forgives and he never forgets," Zeus said. "He's like an elephant with anger management issues.

Unfortunately, most women's closets are more organized than their finances.

Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

What Carnegie had to know personally and what he knew better than anyone else was costs. One could not control a market, although Carnegie was a superb salesman, but one could, one had to, control costs.

Conditions plus principles determine strategy.

People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.

To put this more concretely, we argue that professional work should be decomposed, that is, broken down into its constituent 'tasks'—

efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

Mangement Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail*

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

How you manage your money affects how much God can bless your life.

Servants think like stewards, not owners.