Quotes About Management

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

He who gains time gains everything.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.