Quotes About Management

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

Get your papers in order, with the right signatures and record keeping, and the charges will be dropped, money released, whatever. If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.

The bottom line is, you cannot be a producer unless you understand that it's all your fault.

Je hebt GVD een rekenmachine nodig om je ADH de hele dag bij te houden.

It is no use wasting our time,

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.

Perhaps what we need is a radical reconceptualization of time: not as an adversary to be vanquished (a race against time) or a criminal to be tracked down (fugitive time) or an employee to be disciplined (time management) or a commodity to be squandered (wasted time) but as an expansive, fluid entity that will always resist our efforts to contain it. Time can enrich our lives (quality time), transport us to new places and paces (island time), and help us out in moments of need:

At Mayflower-Plymouth, we're helping businesses and cities make significant improvements with our management consulting services. And for that, we're making the world a better place. And we're making a lot of money - many millions of dollars - by helping others and making their lives better.

Companies with great leadership are simply more investable.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.

A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output

Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.

I think it should not be otherwise in industry. The men are there to get the greatest possible amount of work done and to receive the highest possible pay. If each man were permitted to act in his own way, production would suffer and therefore pay would suffer. Any one who does not like to work in our way may always leave.

It is inevitable that any one who can borrow freely to cover errors of management will borrow rather than correct the errors.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

You find a passenger with his baggage strewn over the seats. You say: Will you give me a seat, if you please, sir? He replies: No; I bought this seat. Bought this seat? From whom did you buy it? I bought it from the man who got out at the last station, That is the way we manage this earth of ours.