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Quotes About Management

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
~ Peter Drucker
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
~ W. Edwards Deming
I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.
~ Geno Auriemma
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
~ Lee Iacocca
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
~ Chris Argyris
If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
~ Lee Iacocca
You're only as good as the people you hire.
~ Ray Kroc
A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.
~ John Flanagan
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
~ Stephen Covey
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
~ Lee Iacocca
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
~ Dante Alighieri
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.
~ Jean Chretien
Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
~ Roger Ailes
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.
~ Bill Gates
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
~ Michael Porter
My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.
~ Steve Jobs
Good work is always done in defiance of management.
~ Bob Woodward
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
~ James Larkin
The extraordinary business does not require good management.
~ Warren Buffett
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
~ Elon Musk
The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!
~ Mohnish Pabrai
Good businesses can survive a little bad management.
~ Charlie Munger
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
~ Frank A. Clark