Quotes About Management

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.

Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch`i State. His Art of War brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, King of Wu. Ho Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test?

By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.

7. Hence in the wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.

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Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.

Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

Soldiers must be first treated in the first instance with humanity, but kept under control by means of iron discipline.

8.    The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice. [Once war is declared, he will

Their action and inaction are matters of strategy, and they cannot be pleased or angered.

Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.

Employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same in principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

By METHOD AND DISCIPLINE are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure. 11.  These five heads should be familiar to every general: he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them not will fail.

Sun Tzu said: If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.

Therefore soldiers must be treated in the first instance with humanity, but kept under control by means of iron discipline. This is a certain road to victory.

The skilled can fill their people with energy to confront the emptiness of others, while the incompetent drain their people of energy in face of the fullness of others.

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements, and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

N'employer pour vaincre que la voie des sièges et des batailles, c'est ignorer également et les devoirs de souverain et ceux de général ; c'est ne pas savoir gouverner ; c'est ne pas savoir servir État