Quotes About Management

Governments, in short, now increasingly farm out their responsibilities to private firms

If goodness was like mint... ...It'll spread if it ain't hedged, her ma explained, then told her how mint roots roam under the soil and send up shoots inches, feet away, making more roots, and those roots then roam, send up shoots, making new roots. And up comes more mint. If I don't wall it off, mint will take over the garden. We'll wind up with no corn and cabbages, no beans and tomatoes, no peppers, no goosefoot, no squash, no okra.

be financially viable in its current form.

As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster.

The corporate environment, with its downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, has actually become even more of a hothouse for psychopaths.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

To achieve Operational Excellence, management has to coach, guide, teach, and instill the concept of getting rid of the use of management in supporting the flow of product to the customer

The right use of kaizen in Operational Excellence is using kaizen to eliminate the need for management in the flow of product to the customer.

Systems are the essential building blocks of every successful business. —Ron Carroll, entrepreneur

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Keeping a website or a software program afloat is like keeping a yacht afloat. It is a black hole for attention. I

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Chef Nicole, prior to the complex, had been the executive chef for the day care center at a start-up company in San Francisco before it went belly-up, probably because it had devoted quite a bit of money toward things like executive chefs for the day care center.

Captain John Smith, the "president" of the colony during much of its earliest history, regularly complained of the quality of those sent to establish the settlement. The colony, he said, would have been better off if the company in London had sent "one hundred good labourers (in place of) a thousand such Gallants as were sent me, that would doe nothing but complaine, curse, and despaire."15

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobs

He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader

Clearly, ASEAN needs to strengthen its secretariat. In contrast to the budget of the EU Secretariat, which is US$154 billion, the annual budget of the ASEAN Secretariat is US$19 million.

Dictator can only be managed by a force greater than their dictatorship.

If we just had the time, he thought, and would often say, we could manage these kids as well. All they lacked was time and resources.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others

How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.