Quotes About Management

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Stuck in traffic is not an excuse. It's a sign of bad planning

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? … RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff

The public can come and go, but librarians are in the library all day, and their jobs include handling difficult and sometimes violent people nearly every day. The topic is bigger than libraries; it is a topic for society to solve. All libraries can do is try their best to manage it.

the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library.

A leader's job is to get it right for the organization, not to be right.

Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.