Quotes About Management

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

Hope is not a strategy

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

If upper management found out, they'd send you off to the Probing Department.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being.

Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast.

Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.