Management Quotes - Page 2

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

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.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

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

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

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.