Quotes About Management

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Those who don't manage their money will always work for those who do

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.