Quotes About Management

I hope to be back in management in the next future

If you can't manage the future, you don't have a future.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

The main goal of organizing people is to make them laborers.

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.