Management Quotes - Page 35

• A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

  Richard Kinder

  Wind, Ideas, Fragility

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• The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Ordinary, Want

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.117

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• The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

  George E. P. Box

  Cynical, Empowerment, Cynicism

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• I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

  Richard Ingrams

  Power, Law, Casinos

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• Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see what's actually there. Their perceptions are less clouded by belief systems, taboos, habits of thought. One responsibility of management--an important one--is to call attention to the invisible obvious, pointing it out as a child does (sometimes to the embarrassment of adults). Doing so also requires supporting employees who take that risk, too, and other risks as well.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Responsibility, Risk

  Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes (2003). “Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.

  Sandra Postel

  Philosophy, Science, Agency

  Sandra Postel (1985). “Conserving water: the untapped alternative”, Worldwatch Inst

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• To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Nice, Islamic

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• It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us how to work with the checks and balances of nature, and encouraging a new, rational, limited-input, environmentally sound means of vineyard management that offers a third way between the ideologically driven approach of Biodynamics and conventional chemical-based agricultural systems.

  Jamie Goode

  Teaching, Wine, Mean

  Jamie Goode (2005). “The Science of Wine: From Vine to Glass”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

  Debbie Moore

  Business, Recipes, Easy

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• If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

  Paul Gilding

  Business, Commitment, Growth

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• The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget.

  Jeffrey Nielsen

  Commitment, Cities, Construction Industry

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• If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

  Edward Yourdon

  Thinking, Quality, Lows

  Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

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• Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Mistake, Training

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• I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

  Willie Randolph

  Baby, Jobs, Real

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• In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

  Harold L. Vogel

  Reality, Top Management, Different

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• Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Priorities, Picks

  Lee Iacocca, Catherine Whitney (2008). “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Needs, Want

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.286, Mango Media Inc.

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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• [Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  People, Good Man, Secret

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• When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

  Robert Reich

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

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• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  George Gilder

  Achievement, Effort, World

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.103, Regnery Publishing

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• Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

  Jim Hightower

  Wages, Increase, Produce

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• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

  Bernard Arnault

  Design, Creative, Inspired

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• The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

  Georges Bidault

  Strong, Power, Thinking

  In Observer 15 July 1962

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• Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Two, Relaxation, World

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