Quotes About Management

Punissez sévèrement, récompensez avec largesse

Those unable to understand the dangers inherent in employing troops are equally unable to understand the advantageous ways of doing so.

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. He controls his soldiers by his authority, knits them together by good faith, and by rewards makes them serviceable. If faith decays, there will be disruption; if rewards are deficient, commands will not be respected.

War is like a fire—if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.

When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixes duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

L'excès de récompenses et de punitions montre que le commandement est au bout de ses ressources, et dans une grande détresse.

El primero de estos factores es la doctrina; el segundo, el tiempo; el tercero, el terreno; el cuarto, el mando; y el quinto, la disciplina.

When troops flee, are insubordinate, distressed, collapse in disorder or are routed, it is the fault of the general. None of these disasters can be attributed to natural causes.

Every commander is aware of this five fundamental determinants: the path, the heaven, the earth, the leadership and discipline

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The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

To command many is equal as to command few; it's the question of divide.

1. 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. 2. Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

a skilful general given free rein by the ruler, brings victory.

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope.

The days of chefs who threw tantrums, who bullied and underpaid their workers, were numbered.

There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

The same is true for the market economy: the power of markets is enormous, but they have no inherent moral character. We have to decide how to manage them... For all these reasons, it is plain that markets must be tamed and tempered to make sure they work to the benefit of most citizens. And that has to be done repeatedly, to ensure that they continue to do so.

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about.

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

But casual dress or no, he looked like the guy in charge. Of everything. Everywhere.