Management Quotes

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

J.K. Rowling

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Tommy Lasorda

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Charles Dickens

We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be knowledge workers.

Owen Davies

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Johann von Goethe

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.

William Hewlitt

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Bertrand Russell

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Lee Iacocca

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

Paulo Coelho

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Tim Gould

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.

Erwin H. Schell

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Stephen Fry

Most management-speak is, as Schrijvers points out, Panglossian balderdash designed to lull the weak and credulous

Anon., Daily Telegraph, July 200

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Robert Townsend