Management Quotes - Page 6

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.

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.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

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

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.