Management Quotes - Page 2

• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Real, Top Management, Middle Management

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Business, Hate

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

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• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Clock Is Ticking, Priorities

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• The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Inspirational, Real, Work

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• Management must manage!

  Harold Geneen

  Work, Manage

  "Managing" by Harold Geneen, Geneen and Moscow, Granada Publishing Ltd., 1985.

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• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Volleyball, Team

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Business, Practice

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 03, 2013

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• The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Marketing

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  Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Educational

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Economy, Good Manager

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• Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Attitude, Years

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• I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Business, Reality

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• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Sometimes, Blind, Deaf

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• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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