Management Quotes - Page 6

• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Robert Reich

  Leadership, Teamwork, Business

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• Jesus was a management expert too.

  George Carey

  Jesus, Experts

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Keys, Investing

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Enough, Wells

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

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• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

  Golda Meir

  Time, Memorable, Positivity

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  Larry Page

  Decision, Should, Managers

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• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Business

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• I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

  Michelle Williams

  Time, Coffee, Teeth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Forever

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

  Robert H. Johnson

  Top Management, Rich, Managers

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• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

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• Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Distance, Organization, Layers

  FaceBook post by Donald Rumsfeld from Aug 17, 2011

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

  Akio Morita

  Thinking, Company, Left

  "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.

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• While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline,organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.

  James P. Comer

  Jobs, School, Frustration

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• When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Smart, People, Phrases

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Time Management

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 10, 2011

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• Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management.  This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Government, Community

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

  Antonio Damasio

  Faces, Problem, Humans

  "The Evolving Minds Of Humans". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

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