Quotes About Management

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Managers need to focus on people, not just tasks. They need to rely on others, not just be self-reliant. Managers are also team-oriented and have a broad focus, whereas nonmanagers succeed by having a narrow focus and being detail-oriented.

People working for the autocrat believe they are working for someone. Those reporting to the diplomat believe they are working zoit/i someone.

We have more coaches on the sidelines than we have players on the field.

The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can't do so with only one.

Instinct told him that all he could do for the moment was stay cool and play the waiting game. It wouldn't be easy but he'd manage it if it killed him.

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence

a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

I guess you don't get to be commander of the Wardens by collecting bottle caps, either.

My God, these guys don't even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.

I order to be in charge, you need someone to be in charge of.

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family's income is managed.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

medications, but everything was under control." "Did Clayton give a reason why he wanted to quit working?

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.