Quotes About Management

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

Economy is the thief of time.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire, so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

He that would govern others should first be the master of himself.