Quotes About Management

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

We have an online clothing boutique called Pink Candy Boutique that we manage in the midst of all of this, and trying to bring in different types of sponsors into NASCAR.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

The typical German coach wants things done one way - his way.

I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.