Management Quotes - Page 39

• Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

  Tony Benn

  Team, Mean, Essence

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• I've actually not read any books on time management.

  Elon Musk

  Book, Time Management

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

  Richard Branson

  Names, Reputation, Brands

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• There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

  Steve Ballmer

  Knowledge, Learning, Iphone

  "More Ballmer Madness: "There's No Chance that the iPhone is Going to Get any significant market share" by Charlie Sorrel, www.wired.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Stupid, Knowledge

  "Microsoft’s Lost Decade". Vanity Fair, www.vanityfair.com. August 2012.

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• 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.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, Fixing, Transformation

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• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Reality, Goal, Culture

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• The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Giving, Joy

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.

  Ted Nelson

  Rights, Trying, World

  "Project Xanadu" description on Ted Nelson's Home Page, xanadu.com.au. November 17, 1998.

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• As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Stronger, Willpower

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• I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

  Justin Guarini

  Bigs, Said, Sat

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• We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money.

  George Soros

  Style, Trying, Use

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goal, Planning, Aim

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

  Sherman Kent

  Estimating, Planning, Knows

  "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).

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• I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Kicking, Attention, Want

  Eugene H. Peterson (2011). “The Pastor: A Memoir”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Successful, Average

  Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Humility, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Boss, Leaving

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• Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

  Simon Sinek

  Tree, Monkeys, Ass

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.82, Penguin

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• People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.

  Bobby Lee

  Eight, Phones, People

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• Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Horse, Jobs

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• I hope to be back in management in the next future

  Paul Ince

  Next

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• The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Hurt, Innovation, Quality

  Business Week, 2007.

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