Quotes About Management

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

In any group, you've got those who love you, those who hate you and those who are undecided. The key to leadership is to keep the ones who hate you away from those who are undecided.

The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven't made up their minds yet.

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after extracting the industry's highest fees—a vertiginous 5 percent of money under management and 44 percent of the profits—the Medallion Fund was said to be up 80 percent.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

If you want people to work hard and succeed, there are times when you've got to let them find their own way. Overmanaging is a constant danger.

But rewilding, unlike conservation, has no fixed objective: it is driven not by human management but by natural processes. There is no point at which it can be said to have arrived. Rewilding of the kind that interests me does not seek to control the natural world, to re-create a particular ecosystem or landscape, but – having brought back some of the missing species – to allow it to find its own way.

It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

Demand may be a suitable subject for psychologists, supply may be the province of engineers or management scientists; both are beyond the scope of economics.

I had a very interesting experience with P.C.Chatterjee, one of my investment advisors. His concept was to look at technology companies as asset-rich companies, where the customer was treated as an asset. If a company had a strong customer base, it could be worth a lot even though it had a lousy management and a lack of products. And he felt that with a little push, these values could be unlocked. It proved to be a valid concept.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

If you are a leader, the people are your work.

Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing

Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

lack drama. Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing

If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.