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Quotes About Management

Eventually Porter developed a routine and would bring in two to 10 decision memos for him to sign each day. Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things, and he had an up-and-down penmanship that looked authoritative in black Magic Marker.
~ Bob Woodward
And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?
~ Bob Woodward
the vice president was a counting clerk, period.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump had no understanding of how government functioned. At times he would just start drafting orders himself or dictating
~ Bob Woodward
Trump listens to you. He's always looking for adult supervision.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump had failed the President Lincoln test. He had not put a team of political rivals or competitors at the table, Priebus concluded. "He puts natural predators at the table," Priebus said later. "Not just rivals—predators.
~ Bob Woodward
If you have natural predators at the table," Priebus said, "things don't move." So the White House was not leading on key issues like health care and tax reform. Foreign policy was not coherent and often contradictory. "Why?" asked Priebus. "Because when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.
~ Bob Woodward
Kelly said of the president, "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown.
~ Bob Woodward
Kelly said, "That was the greatest show of self-control I have ever seen. If that was me, I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times.
~ Bob Woodward
Esper had not learned how to play the necessary politics that went with the job of being Trump's secretary of defense.
~ Bob Woodward
I hung up, feeling distressed. Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilize the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states. There was no real management theory of the case or how to organize a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced. Beyond being a reporter, I was worried for the country.
~ Bob Woodward
The chairman is not in the chain of command.
~ Bob Woodward
Department of Homeland Security. "Each one of them is mid- to upper-level management in their agencies.
~ Brad Thor
Distanciarse de la fuente del escándalo es la regla número uno de cómo gestionar una crisis.
~ Sylvia Day
I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
~ T. Harv Eker
First you start properly handling the money you have, then you'll have more money to handle. In
~ T. Harv Eker
Arquivo de riqueza no 14 As pessoas ricas administram bem o seu dinheiro. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre administram mal o seu dinheiro.
~ T. Harv Eker
BBLR means that if the tax base—that is, the total amount of income, or sales, or property that can be taxed—is kept as large as possible, then the tax rate—that is, the percentage that people have to give to the government—can be kept low. Virtually all economists and tax experts agree that this is the best way to run a tax regime.
~ T.R. Reid
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
~ Tahir Shah
Studies have shown that many heads of Fortune Five Hundred companies are sociopaths.
~ Tami Hoag
She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it. They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.
~ Tamora Pierce
The shortest route to top quartile performance is to be in the bottom quartile of expenses. —Jack Bogle
~ Taylor Larimore
It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an effort to move toward gender parity, some of the art and science of household management and gracious living have been lost.
~ Julianne Malveaux
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
~ Julie Bishop