Quotes About Management

PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

I'm easy with employees. I make sure they get credit for their work. Naturally, sometimes a guy will screw up, and I'll have to apply some "retraining."

Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

Play needs direction as well as work.

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.

When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.