Quotes About Management

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Plan your work - work your plan

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.