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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.

I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are not given fair treatment by corporate management and mutual fund management. We need to develop a national standard of fiduciary duty to ensure that these agents, if you will, are adequately representing the principles - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund shareholders - whom they are duty bound to serve.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.

I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

In a healthy system, there is no blame.

In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

Is management candid with the shareholders?

I think the asset management industry, especially in the US, is going through a pretty tough time. If you talk to the CEO of a US asset manager, morale would be at a low, even though stock markets are at almost record levels.

It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.