Quotes About Management

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Business is business, no child's play.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

Despatch is the soul of business.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

There is no room for being creative in today's business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.