Quotes About Management

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

Stoke are a team who are very well organised and very disciplined.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

You need good staff with their own opinions - Mick Jones has been a great No 2 as he's not a yes-man - but at the end of the day the buck stops with you and the good managers are the ones who make more good decisions than bad.

And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.