Management Quotes - Page 11

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

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

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

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

The process is not just the sum of its parts.

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.

Meeting specifications is not enough.

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

Without questions, there is no learning.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.