Quotes About Management

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

The aim should be to work on the method of management.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.