Managers Quotes

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• ... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!

  Merton Miller

  Mean, Majority, Investing

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• The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

  Ricardo Semler

  Keys, Management

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• When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

  Eamon

  Stills, Ireland

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

  Paul Hawken

  Art, Business, Top Management

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Top Management, Systems And Processes

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

  Henry Mintzberg

  Change, Art, Top Management

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• Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

  Michael Lewis

  Pain, Moving, Gains

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Money

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Leadership, Top Management, Average

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, People, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Yardsticks, Communicate

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Leader, Roles

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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