Management Quotes

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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

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Man is the principal syllable in Management.

Man is the principal syllable in Management.

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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all th

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

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Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on th

Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.

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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers thin

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

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Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing h

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are

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

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An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best execut

An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people

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I head a nation of a million presidents.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Chaim. Weizmann

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Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

Karl Weick, Social Psychology of

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I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-r

I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.

Jack E. Reichert

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Good managers have a bias for action.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Thomas J. Peters

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Good management consists in showing average people how to do

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their a

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Who can direct when all pretend to know?

Who can direct when all pretend to know?

Oliver Goldsmith

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Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.

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Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

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Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but a

Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.

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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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