Quotes About Management

Lots of people have understood management as a way of throwing their weight around.

The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your home, your communities, nations, your life in general and the world.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

CEOs are trained to assess business strategy, it's time to take a page from their book and train yourself to manage your own personal career strategy. A career that is left to manage itself will under-perform much like a company whose strategic direction is left to chance. And like a business there are some best practices to avoid. There is planning to be done, decisions to be made and evasive measures to execute in times of trouble.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Brands are assets, and companies rightfully include them on their financial balance sheets.

Part of how the abuser escapes confronting himself is by convincing you that you are the cause of his behavior, or that you at least share the blame. But abuse is not a product of bad relationship dynamics, and you cannot make things better by changing your own behavior or by attempting to manage your partner better. Abuse is a problem that lies entirely within the abuser.

I personally bought three liters of kerosene two days ago. And now there's just a drop left on the bottom, not enough to stick up a dog's ass. You just can't leave anything in the kitchen anymore.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Professional sports is a business.

Understanding your boss is one of the best investments you can make in your own career.

The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode.

And if I spend resources I don't have, I will eventually bankrupt myself.

The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

Multics gave living proof that a grown-up operating system was possible—that sophisticated memory management, a hierarchical file system, careful attention to security, and all the rest could be integrated into a single, coherent whole.

Libraries of the Future is, in fact, one of the founding documents of what is now called digital library research, which includes (among other things) our efforts to manage information in that sprawling mass of data known as the World Wide Web.

We never will have balance in our lives unless our finances are securely under control.

UNDERLYING NEED "COPING" MECHANISM

As a leader, however, we must manage our attitudes. Do we need to be perfect? Of course not. But we can never underestimate the influence that our actions and our attitudes will have on our team.

The inherent tensions between the White House and the press should not worry a president who is disciplined about observing certain elementary tactics of survival. Take responsibility, admit mistakes, put out bad news quickly, and acknowledge inconsistencies before others point them out.

Good management consist of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.