Management Quotes

We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
     - James E. Burke -

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
     - Peter F. Drucker -

You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going
     - Mike Litman -

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
     - W. Edwards Deming quotes -

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
     - David Ogilvy -

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

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
     - Agha Hasan Abedi -

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
     - Harvey Mackay -

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.
     - Jack Welch -

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
     - Vince Lombardi -

One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
     - Calvin Coolidge -

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
     - General Douglas MacAuthur -

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
     - Confucius -

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
     - Napoleon Bonaparte -

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
     - Peter F. Drucker -

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
     - Henry Ford -

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
     - Margaret Mead -

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
     - Hyman Rickover -

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.
     - Peter F. Drucker -

A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
     - H. S. M. Burns -

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
     - Ronald Reagan -

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
     - Mark Twain -

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