Quotes About Management

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

One is always a good master when one isn't the master

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger

Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.'

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.

Leadership Puzzle solved. One more time, you need to focus on processes, first making them efficient, then spending time on the people and personalities

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

One portfolio is better than another one when it offers higher mean return for a given level of volatility—or a lower volatility for a given level of return.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls "the consequences of mis-attention.