Quotes About Management

In a global, digital economy, if IT is not a strategic asset, it's a strategic liability.

Guan Zhong explains (as the fourth-century-BC Guanzi attests) that management of water is the key to maintaining social order. There are 'five harmful influences' in nature, he says, including drought and pestilence – but floods are the worst. Uncontrolled water has a symbolic as well as a pragmatic impact: it leads to the breakdown of filial piety and disintegration of social relations.

A ruler who failed to manage China's waters didn't just risk social decay. He exposed himself to the charge that heaven itself had lost confidence in his capacity to rule. This idea is attributed to the Duke of Zhou

I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves

a strike in the era of globalization must be vigorously supported by allies near and far and exceptionally well managed.

Stock prices do not always reflect the true value of companies, so an investor should study a company thoroughly and really understand its business, capital, and management when deciding whether it had sufficient underlying value to make an investment for the long term worthwhile.

four P's: product, price, place, and promotion.

The Ownership Quotient

MAF is an open system that can be used by itself, or be integrated into any approach you may be currently using, or help you start all over again. That's because MAF provides assessment tools that help take the guesswork out of exercise, food and stress management. These tools, such as the MAF Test and Two-Week Test, can help you better understand whether your workouts and eating patterns are really right for you.

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

Paul then asked if being managed by Brian would make any difference to the music they played. Brian assured him that it would not. There was a second uneasy silence, again broken by John. "Right then, Brian," he said. "Manage

staff are terrified of them, and not without reason.

have fired more people than any comparable employer unit in the world. They make Lord Beaverbrook look like Jesus.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Life's managed, not cured.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

What matters is that you gain more and more control of the institutions that serve us all so poorly.

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.

When it comes to managing crocodiles, we are learning that it is actually more important to manage people. Learning how to keep people safe from crocodiles will ultimately protect visitors to croc territory as well as the crocodilians themselves.

The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.