Management Quotes - Page 5

• Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

  Charlie Munger

  Decision, Understanding, Vices

  Muppets ask questions and experts answer, 25iq.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Heart, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.218, Mango Media Inc.

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• I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

  Tim Gould

  Funny Work, Middle Management, Boss

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• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Leadership, Technique, Ethics

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.

  William L. McKnight

  Mistake, People, Essentials

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

  Phil Crosby

  Business, Quality, Causes

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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  Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Business, Communication

  "Simon Sinek's Logistics Of Leadership". www.askmen.com.

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• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

  Chester Barnard

  Inspirational, Failure, Learning

  Chester Irving Barnard (1968). “The Functions of the Executive”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, Business, Winning

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• Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Diversity, Unity

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.39, Penn State Press

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• Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Money, Learning

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2015

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• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  "Why Aren’t You Delegating?" by Amy Gallo, hbr.org. July 26, 2012.

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• The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.

  Jeff Weiner

  Leadership, Courage, Business

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• We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  Fujio Cho

  Average, Differences, People

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• The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Self, Decision, Voting

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Leadership, Boss

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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• Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

  John P. Kotter

  Creating, Leader, Trying

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

  David Lilienthal

  Moving, Men, Imagination

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