Quotes About Management

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

In Italy, some managers want distance from the players, the Fabio Capello style, but that is not my way. I am more like Carlo Ancelotti. There are aspects of the players' behaviour I do not understand, but I want them to respect our situation. If they do that, I have a lot of respect for them, too, and I will do everything to help them.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

When you look at the reasons people leave companies, it's usually because their boss is a jerk or because they aren't learning and growing.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.

I joined 3G when I was 24, but I didn't really have much of a management role there. I became C.F.O. when we acquired Burger King, so that was my first time managing people. I had just turned 30.

I don't think I was a control freak. I just couldn't get my head around things. When I joined Sheffield United I was told I had £5m to spend, then when I went to see the chief executive he told me if I didn't raise £350,000 no one was getting paid.

To choose time is to save time.

Time is the measure of business.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

Do 'keystones' have a 'Master'?

Los grupos económicos pueden definirse como un conjunto de empresas de naturaleza y especialidades diversas, dirigidas de acuerdo a una política común […], manteniendo éstas, al interior del grupo su autonomía jurídica» (el énfasis es nuestro) (Anaya, 1990, p. 19).

IPAE insistía en que «el gerente se hace, no nace».

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

The lack of ability of those in charge to get a grip on a situation, and to take immediate, decisive action rather than simply debate everything endlessly, is one of the major problems in the State education system.