Quotes About Management

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

The problem with West Indies cricket is that the talent is there but there is no cohesion. Everybody's pulling in different directions; the players, the selectors, the management.

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.

Creating a strong company culture isn't just good business. It's the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders - employees, management, and customers.

I may believe in something, but if it is not working and is not giving returns, we have to close it down because that is the right thing to do for the shareholders.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

If you intend to do the right thing for yourself, your family, and for your business, it becomes more like a balancing act. It's juggling - and accepting the fact that it won't always be perfect will help you better manage the inevitable ebbs and flows.

Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where people are having to jump from the last 'great idea' to yet another unproven-and-about-to-be-poorly-executed one.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

You can outsource the function but not the risk"

Flamininus was as good at his word. The legions departed. It was now up to the Greek city-states to manage their own affairs

The satraps, in turn, were content to allow the Greek city-states to manage their internal affairs

Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.

All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy — the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team.

field directorship because the Philadelphia front office

Las estructuras gubernamentales de México están muy lejos de esa eficiencia gerencial y están demasiado contaminadas por modalidades corruptas, paternalistas o corporativas de gestión como para funcionar sustentadas únicamente por una nueva cultura gerencial y mercadotécnica.

fixing accountability will be the low-hanging fruit for optimizing performance in business for at least the next decade. Accountability

62 percent of respondents said that people often failed to stick to established deadlines, viewing them as general guidelines rather than must-do organizational mandates.