Quotes About Management

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That's how it started.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Professional sports is a business.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.

I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders