Quotes About Management

Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that's as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what's best for the company.

His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.

The British are a strange race,' he said. 'In peacetime, they are impossible to manage, but in a crisis they are magnificent. The only time a British sailor is truly happy is when his ship is sinking.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.

She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.

In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is—a business administration !

Mothers are multi-taskers.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

The poor person dreams of having a million dollars; the rich person dreams of adding another million dollars to the millions he or she already has. As a result, accumulations of money block the real flow of wealth and poison nearly every aspect of our collective lives. In such an environment, it can be difficult to remember that money is simply a tool for managing the flow of real wealth among people...

Bringing Leviathan under control will be the heart of global politics

She arranged her own books

Hochrangige Manager, sagen sie, arbeiten ohne E-Mail häufig effizienter, denn so sind sie vor den ständigen Anfragen ihrer Untergebenen abgeschirmt.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

A guiding coalition with good managers but poor leaders will not succeed. A managerial mindset will develop plans, not vision; it will vastly undercommunicate the need for and direction of change; and it will control rather than empower people.

The simple insight that management is not leadership (chapter 2) is better understood today, but not nearly as well as is needed. Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.