Management Quotes - Page 23

• God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crazy, Style, Laid Back

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• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

  Max Lucado

  Business, Differences, People

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.409, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Night, Pigs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

  Jack Weatherford

  Anger, Pride, Keys

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• In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

  Sarah Dessen

  Trying, Role Playing, Roles

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strength, Inspiring

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• Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

  Connie Willis

  Filled Out, Long, Forgiving

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.140, Spectra

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• Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

  Charles Stross

  Sorry, Oxygen, Gone

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.33, Penguin

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• Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Courage, Inspiration

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• There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Reading, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, p.379, Mango Media Inc.

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• Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, Believe, Hands

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• Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

  Neil Gaiman

  Way, Facts, Bees

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• People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, People, Needs

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• It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Morning, Feelings, Together

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• 3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some...anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.

  Karen Chance

  Nuts, Issues, People

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• Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiration, Independent, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.59, Mango Media Inc.

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• The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

  Michelle Alexander

  Punishment, Justice, Criminals

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.188, The New Press

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• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Anger is one letter short of danger.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, Wise

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• Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

  Stanley Bing

  Anger, Needs, Bombs

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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