Quotes About Management

It is an eternal truth that men receive more pay for their ABILITY TO GET OTHERS TO PERFORM, than they could possibly earn by their own efforts.

When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.

The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.

Men who can do things are discovered. They need not push themselves to the front. Good men are scarce, and the great successful business men of today are the ones who know how to do the work that they are hiring employees to do. Talent in this direction will surely attract the attention of your superiors.

If you can't manage your own mental attitude, what makes you think you can manage others?

It is easier to increase profits by cutting the expenses in many cases than it is to increase profits by increasing sales.

The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard himself as a quasi-public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work hardship on no individual, or group of individuals.

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

Corporations are in love with the idea of the strategic plan. They need to pay to figure out where they are going. Yet there is no evidence that strategic planning works—we even seem to have evidence against it. A management scholar, William Starbuck, has published a few papers debunking the effectiveness of planning—it makes the corporation option-blind, as it gets locked into a non-opportunistic course of action.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it.

we can control a function of x, f(x), even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction

Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrowing schedules.

There is, in the Black Swan zone, a limit to knowledge that can never be reached, no matter how sophisticated statistical and risk management science ever gets.

Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.

But top management is only paid on result—no matter the process.

The dentist did better when he dealt with monthly statements rather than more frequent ones.

People who get promoted to important positions usually suffer from tightness of schedules: Everything has an allotted time.

Needless to say they were usually sleep-deprived. Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.

blame his successor for subsequent results.

they would not buy my ideas on robust risk management because "everyone uses these textbooks.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

and lack of vigilance on the part of the bank.