Quotes About Management

With habits, we conserve our [limited] self-control.

Research suggests that when we have conflicting goals, we don't manage ourselves well. We become anxious and paralyzed, and we often end up doing nothing.

Apply the one minute rule. Don't postpone anything that could be done in less than a minute

Hiring better than yourself means that you hire for strengths as opposed to hiring on the basis of the lack of weaknesses. A great leader hires people for their strengths and then assigns them tasks that take advantage of those strengths.

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.

Do you think we need a real CEO? Answer you're looking for: "Maybe, someday. But probably not right now. What you really need right now is a great product.

A democracia é a arte e ciência de administrar o circo a partir da jaula dos macacos

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.

The disintegration processes which have become so manifest in recent years—the decay of public services: schools, police, mail delivery, garbage collection, transportation, et cetera; the death rate on the highways and the traffic problems in the cities; the pollution of air and water—are the automatic results of the needs of mass societies that have become unmanageable

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." —Theodore Roosevelt

When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

My hair is just like five pieces of very soft straw that needs managing. I touch my hair a lot, and that makes it crazy.

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.