Quotes About Management

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after year by using a few simple principles relentlessly. The system of management he used was called differentiation.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.