Quotes About Management

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats.

Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants to do.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

The real meaning of revolution is not a change in management … but a change in man.

So subtle and so well rationalized have the arts of technocratic domination become in our advanced industrial societies that even those in the state and/or corporate structure who dominate our lives must find it impossible to conceive of themselves as the agents of totalitarian control. Rather, they easily see themselves as the conscientious managers of a munificent social system.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

One of the principles of leadership in any organization, particularly a local church, is the law of unintended consequences. It points out that any significant change in an organization will have reactions that extend well beyond the change itself.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst. – William Penn

You'll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don't trust your brain.