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Quotes About Management

In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra
The frequency of leadership going to the gemba is inversely proportional to the number of walls separating them from the gemba.
~ Jon Miller
Leaders: Captains of industry.
~ Thomas Carlyle
That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.
~ James Alan Gardner
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
He had to grow his own NCOs.
~ Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.
~ GE Paulus
He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.
~ Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor
No time for anything, little time for everything
~ Sonya Withrow
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
~ Arnold H. Glasow
Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources.
~ Gugu Mona
Do not hire those who are incapable.Do not fire those who are capable.A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
~ Solon
Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.
~ Quint Studer
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.
~ Azim Premji
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.
~ Azim Premji
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
~ Ivanka Trump
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.
~ Peter Block
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
~ Peter Drucker
Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both
~ Mark McCormack