Quotes About Management

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.

When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better.

the outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Given the right plan, everything in life can be managed . . . except your heart.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.

A client once said: "Long-range, strategic planning is a great tool, but we need to get some things done before lunch!

Billing was the lifeblood of the firm. Everything revolved around it.

Each exam took twenty minutes, so they did three per hour, about twenty-five each day, six days a week.

from which the western and central sectors of the border with England were controlled

greater in that he had been ensconced safely at a distance and was not leading his troops.

And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of New England's founding fathers

That Christmastime night, all Mr. Lockley could manage to direct to Elaine was a minimally cordial bow—as if he were saying the unutterable, "Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you managing now, you smelly little slut?

Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you managing now, you smelly little slut?

Higgins, Helen was aware, was a singularly eccentric and troublesome colleague, who managed at the same time to be dull and cloddish to the point of sleep.

Firing a manager inspired only the ambitious who wanted to take his or her place. But murder motivated everyone. It belonged in every supervisor's tool kit.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

The use of leverage can promote efficiency by enabling risk to be held and managed more efficiently. But the use of leverage provides opportunities for tailgaters and gamblers with other people's money, and creates many opportunities to fall victim to the winner's curse.

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

One does not fire or sack higher-income personnel; in the interest of greater efficiency, they are only shed.

The rule is that financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What

You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.