Quotes About Management

I'm a zero inbox guy.

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms - if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

Integrated coastal zone management procedures involving concurrent attention to both the landward and seaward site of the ocean and to coastal forestry and agro-forestry as well as capture and culture fisheries are urgently needed.

I went into a club who were sitting dead last in League Two, then I got them out of the relegation zone within 10 games, only to then get the sack... I don't get it.

There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.