Management Quotes

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Henry David Thoreau

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Victor Hugo

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

Warren Buffett

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged.

Lorii Myers

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stephen King

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You learn not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find that the world loves talent but pays off on character.

John Gardner

Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Oscar Wilde

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Charles Dickens

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Ken Blanchard

The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Robert Heller

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

Terry Pratchett

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have .

Abraham Lincoln