Quotes About Management

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Business neglected is business lost.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.