Quotes About Management

Already contemplating the future, Rockefeller wanted to be surrounded by trustworthy people who could inspire confidence in customers and bankers alike.

Politely firing the man, he took charge of financial matters and pored over stacks of incomprehensible bills.

that he alone started and stopped panics.

Rockefeller handled people adroitly and wasn't the cold curmudgeon of later myth.

Unable to curtail his free-handed spending and with his crops faring poorly, he started out 1786 with a paltry eighty-six pounds in cash.

We will let it simmer" was a saying John employed throughout his business career.

Pierpont handled the West Shore affair better than I could have done it myself.

Has anyone given you the law of these offices? No? It is this: nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it.… As soon as you

The fantastic cascade of bullshit coming down from senior officers with nothing better to do.

If I had but the time and you had but the brain

Benevolent dictator? No, I'm just lazy. I try to manage by not making decisions and letting things occur naturally. That's when you get the best results.

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then 'control' the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then 'decontrol' the spending.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.