Quotes About Management

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.