Management Quotes - Page 8

• Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Theory

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• Without theory we can only copy.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Theory, Copies

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• You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Achieve, Method, Aim

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• You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Discovery, Innovation, Plans

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• You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Joy, Flow, Diagrams

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• You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Information, Dictionary

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• You do not install knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

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• You do not install quality; you begin to work at it.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality

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• You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Improvement, Constant, Suppliers

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• Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Highways, Defects

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• One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Order, Profound, Psychology

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

  David F. Swensen

  Independent, Eye, Acceptance

  David F. Swensen (2009). “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

  Benjamin Graham

  Essence, Risk, Investing

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• Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, May

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• We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

  Walter Schloss

  Talking, Investing, Deals

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• Managements, you know, often think of themselves.

  Walter Schloss

  Thinking, Investing, Knows

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• Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

  V. Vale

  Time Management, Life Is

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Climbing, Careers

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• Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.

  James F. Bell, III

  Jobs, Effort, Balance

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Age, Duty, Valuable

  "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.

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• God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

  Francois Fenelon

  Wise, Time, Two

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• No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Organization, Assessment, Views

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