Management Quotes - Page 19

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

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

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

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.

Marketing management is now tribal leadership.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

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.

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

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

The things that get rewarded, get done

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfillment of life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.

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

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

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.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.