Quotes About Management

How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How

Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

By diversifying, you become a juggler trying to keep too many balls in the air all at once.

Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.

You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world.

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

Chloe. She, Judy-Moody-not-Stink, was in charge of piles and piles of money and got to dish

Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.

a planner-the sort of person who could size up a situation and take control and be rewarded with a good outcome.

Always put first things first.

Control is the name of the game and if a Skunk Works really operates right, control is exactly what they won't get.

There's no good reason ever to pay more than these levels of annual operating expenses, by fund category: Taxable and municipal bonds: 0.75% U.S. equities (large and mid-sized stocks): 1.0% High-yield (junk) bonds: 1.0% U.S. equities (small stocks): 1.25% Foreign stocks: 1.50%9

The story is simple enough. Some of those in charge set out to get much better than average (or DJIA) results. They succeeded in doing this for a while, garnering considerable publicity and additional funds to manage. The aim was legitimate enough; unfortunately, it appears that, in the context of investing really sizable funds, the aim cannot be accomplished without incurring sizable risks. And in a comparatively short time the risks came home to roost.

follow the behavioral and business

Know what you are doing—know your business." For the investor this means: Do not try to make "business profits" out of securities

Do not let anyone else run your business, unless (1) you can supervise his performance with adequate care and comprehension or (2) you have unusually strong reasons for placing implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.

He also wants to see managers who set and meet realistic goals; build their businesses from within rather than through acquisition; allocate capital wisely; and do not pay themselves hundred-million-dollar jackpots of stock options.

It must never be forgotten that a stockholder is an owner of the business and an employer of its officers. He is entitled not only to ask legitimate questions but also to have them answered, unless there is some persuasive reason to the contrary.

Graham feels that five elements are decisive.1 He summarizes them as: the company's "general long-term prospects" the quality of its management its financial strength and capital structure its dividend record and its current dividend rate.

You don't buy a dog and bark yourself

British Rail is some kind of joke, right? They just pretend to run a railroad? Is that right? Anyway

Every organisation, whatever its character and whatever its purpose, involves some redistribution of power. There must be a government, which takes decisions in the name of the whole body, and has more power than the single members have, at any rate as regards the purposes for which the organisation exists.

When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.