Quotes About Management

WHATEVER happens tomorrow, one thing is certain; it must not be allowed to look after itself.

Just as tasks should have a cancellation policy, threads should have an interruption policy.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Poor health tends to make narcissists of us, and narcissism makes us blind to compassion, empathy, anger management, and patience - all elements that, when mastered, will lead us higher up the evolutionary scale toward immortality.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Traditional managers worry about how to get things done, while leaders worry about what things get done…(and trust their team to figure out how to do it).

Your expenses will always adjust to exceed your income.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

This is the essential lesson of politics: in the end ruling is the objective, not ruling well.

The difference between doing a good job and doing a lousy job is driven by how many people a leader has to keep happy.

It is better to have loyal incompetents than competent rivals. Sometimes of course, having competent advisors is unavoidable.

Washington, who monitored his supplies on a daily basis, sometimes checking on them every few hours, complained bitterly about the inefficient operations

the control she gained over the situation allowed her to manage her anxiety such that it minimized the effects that the abuse had on her daily life.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem, laid upon the complexity of the machine. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail.

In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question "What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?

I learned," he said, "you always tell people how badly you've been running the goddamned company, so they've got some upside.

turn over the reins to the board of directors.

I have some anger issues.

Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them.

Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.

Capitalism must be kept alive by non-capitalist methods.