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

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

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

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

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

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

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

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].

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

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

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

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

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

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

Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

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

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

Science is organized knowledge.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.

Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

Succeed in spite of management.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century