Quotes About Management

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.

I loved managing England more than anything but there were times during those five years when I thought, 'Why did I leave Italy?' because you are criticised so much.

Jamie Dimon is doing a great job; J.P. Morgan is a great institution.

I played a very background role in terms of trying to get the environment together but Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss have done a great job.

I pay my credit cards in full every month - as well as all my bills and mortgages.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

I spend a fair amount of time dealing with email, mostly deleting them or skimming them to get a sense of what is going on.

Keep the team as small as possible. Having been on several of these mega-projects, they seem to grow magically. People are attracted to the project like moths to a flame.

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

Healthy people are not very motivated to manage their health. They just don't care.

I would have been a fantastic captain in a football team or a manager because I would have motivated people.

I have this game that I play on my computer, 'Football Manager,' where I'm the manager of a team and that definitely gets me motivated.

Social media has become a big part of our lives and I try to manage it well but it's the criticism that motivates me and keeps me going.

I think, in international cricket, your management is about motivating players.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

You can rule by fear but it's not a great motivation for people.

En una economía coordinada por los precios, los empleados y los acreedores insisten en que se les pague, independientemente de si los administradores o los propietarios hayan cometido errores. Esto significa que las empresas capitalistas pueden cometer muy pocos errores y durante muy poco tiempo, bajo el riesgo de detener su actividad, o de ser obligadas a ello, ya sea por la incapacidad de conseguir el trabajo y los insumos que necesitan, o por quiebra.

It may be satisfying to castigate the likes of Geithner and the heads of Lehman Brothers and AIG, but safety experts like Perrow know it is far more productive to design better systems than to hope for better people.

Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be.