Best 882 quotes in «management quotes» category

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand

Middle management is a disease.

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.

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

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil and gas exploitation are doing to our public lands that belong to all Americans. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. The Secretary of the Interior is urging the Bureau of Land Management to support the gas and oil industry's most extreme drilling scenario in some of the American West's most pristine and fragile areas without proper legal and public input.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.

Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

No worry before its time.

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

Our proposal had more than just money. We would increase their staff and keep their headquarters, their brand and their management in place. We made them a comprehensive offer they couldn't refuse. Shareholders simply receive cash, but with the staff and management, we had to show that we could share the same vision. Employees would probably resent us if money were all [we offered].

Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with the critical concepts behind strategy. The history of strategy suggests there are lots of things consultants can do for a company that the company can't typically do for itself.

Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.