Quotes About Management

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.

He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

My good man, could we have one deadly issue to deal with at a time?

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We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

You Cannot Get Out of Debt by Borrowing More Money.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Livingston: Didn't you also insult them by describing publicly what it was like to have VCs run your company? Greenspun: Only after they sued me. I said it was like watching a kindergarten class get into a Boeing 747 and flip all the switches and try to figure out why it won't take off. That was before I got my pilot's license. Now I know how apt it was.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

While the managers are right as far as the work methods they offer are concerned, experience has shown—and has convinced not a few managers—that if the workers can be truly active, responsible, and knowledgeable in their work role, the formerly uninterested ones change considerably and show a remarkable degree of inventiveness, activity, imagination, and satisfaction.

Even a person of mediocre intelligence and ability can easily run a state once he or she is in the seat of power.

Active and responsible participation further requires that humanistic management replace bureaucratic management.

Winston had grave concerns, and that she regretted letting the romance progress to this point without expressing their doubts and fears. This was only partly true: In fact, Churchill, preoccupied with war matters, had few concerns about the engagement and was more than content to let Clementine manage the situation. Thus far that weekend, his main interests had

From the start, Churchill and Fisher resolved to keep the operation so secret that only they and a few other Admiralty officials would ever know it existed.