Quotes About Management

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.

Do not let anyone else run your business

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Football is business and business is business.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!