Quotes About Management

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman, and two other members in bed with flu.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

To govern is to choose.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.