Quotes About Management

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The key then to leadership is accomplishing the tasks at hand while building relationships.

One of the great paradoxes of social engineering is that it seems at odds with the experience of modernity generally. Trying to jell a social world, the most striking characteristic of which appears to be flux, seems rather like trying to manage a whirlwind.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

If you grind long enough you will quickly learn that generating reoccurring long-term wealth is not the problem or big headache you face rather the big headaches come from coming up with new places to put your money as the more money your money printing machine makes the more headaches you have each day to tend to

We could've stopped the spread of the disease a lot better than we've been able to cure the disease.

the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.

When the slave auctioneer asked him what he was skilled at, Diogenes said "At governing people," and, pointing to a well-dressed buyer, he said "Sell me to that man, for he wants a master.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Enlightened policies in the management of fossil fuels and forests can delay or avoid these changes, but the time for implementing the policies is fast passing.

Long lead times are required for effective action.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

China is chaotic and complex, requiring a more dictatorial management structure that doesn't have room for democracy or discussion.

Good interviewers share three features. They . . . obtain the greatest amount of accurate information relevant to diagnosis and management, in the shortest period of time, consistent with creating and maintaining a good working relationship (rapport) with the patient.

A Florida planter defended his management practices by pointing to his slaves' "natural increase which in the last year has been over ten percent, in a gang of 120." A Georgia overseer informed his employer that with good management his plantation could produce much more cotton.

Running a digital infrastructure of global significance is nothing like running a normal business, and yet the law still treats it this way.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.