Quotes About Management

If we hope to become effective and successful in life, ministry, and especially marriage, we have to learn to be good managers. Stewardship means being accountable to God for every resource under our care. Effective managers do more than simply keep things running; they add value to everything they have responsibility over. Under a good manager, resources will appreciate in value.

by the effective use of one's time.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

It's not just an easy one-liner. The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

Never keep someone on a job who likes it too much. She knows when she sees the single flash of that gleeful and hungry face that they're not here to raid for what they can find. They're not here for anything that can be given.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master.

Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?

There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever.

Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

Trying to second-guess lunatics, drunks, or the Office of Personnel Management was an exercise in frustration. The logic totally eluded her.

Bureaucrats -- monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil -- are first in line for promotion.

No matter who you are, your progress and success in life will depend, more than any other factor, on how you invest the twenty-four hours you're blessed with each day.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Nicholas Alahverdian said, It's going to take willpower, energy and effective management to provide for the overhaul of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families

Ganteaume had twenty-one fighting ships under his command, but trained crews for only seven.