Quotes About Management

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

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

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

The bureaucrat's favorite strategy: Pass a problem on down the line.

Everything rises and falls on leadership. —John Maxwell