Quotes About Supervision

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Management must manage!

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

Much of the work legal executives do has to be supervised by a solicitor, irrespective of the experience or ability of the individual. In practice, this is a major disincentive to legal executives setting up their own high street practices. Even when they can do the work, they are still tied to solicitors.

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

handling my ash is verboten right now.

You're suppose to stop her from doing stupid things, not helping

When you sit at the back of a room you can keep a check on everything.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.

They knew that the police worked unremittingly, unceasingly, always and ever to bring every phase of human activity under their control.

Roosevelt and his advisers soon fell into the habit of calling for Bureau reports on matters that had little or nothing to do with law enforcement.

Like all boses—and on set, I'm the boss—I'm the boss only up to a point.

swivel around wildly and finally spot Minnie. She's balanced on a stone bench, tussling with Suze's son Wilfrid over a red plastic truck. "Pleeease!" she's yelling crossly. "Pleeease!" Now, to my horror, she starts hitting Wilfrid with the truck, yelling with each blow: "Please! Please! Please!" The trouble is, Minnie hasn't really absorbed the spirit of the word "please.

Someone who really respects himself and is concerned for his own soul is assured of the fact that a person living under his own supervision in the world at large lives in greater austerity and seclusion than a maiden in her lady's bower.

As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.