Quotes About Management

Cut my coat after my cloth.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day; It's really a matter of how you use them.

supporting each other in a joint effort. Discuss ways to prevent time wasting in areas of your department that seem especially inefficient. Set up an informal forum, in which your staff can share their time-saving tricks. Some people have a natural sense of how to use time effectively, and everyone can benefit from their wisdom. Don't forget to offer your own suggestions. Then draft a time-management

All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.

There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Time is the currency of our life—how we spend it defines our existence.

Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke.

I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

Though it be ever so plain, that there ought to be government in the world

between 2007 and 2012 the U.S. workforce gained 387,000 managers while losing almost two million clerical jobs.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public

He said, "Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process.

Much of leadership is knowing whom to select, whom to encourage, whom to restrain, and whom to replace.

An irascible man who understood his own character, he would hold off on any personnel decision for twenty-four hours, allowing his judgment to dominate his temper.

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

Do you realize that the only way you can create excess inventories is by having excess manpower?" he says. I think about it. After a minute, I have to conclude he's right; machines don't set up and run themselves. People had to create the excess inventory.

And if quality were truly the goal, then how come a company like Rolls Royce very nearly went bankrupt?

To efficiently produce quality products sounds like a good goal. But can that goal keep the plant working? I'm bothered by some of the examples that come to mind. If the goal is to produce a quality product efficiently, then how come Volkswagen isn't still making Bugs?

Somewhere in the scientific method lies the answer for the needed management techniques. It is obvious.

am suggesting that you question how you are managing the capacity of your plant.

All those calls and meetings were fire fighting. I remind myself. No fires, no fighting. Now, everything is running smoothly— almost too smoothly.