Great Management Quotes

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Real, Top Management, Middle Management

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

  Benjamin Graham

  Money, Worst Enemy, Greed

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

  James C. Collins

  People, Insightful, Vision

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

  John W. Gardner

  Keys, Two, Judgement

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• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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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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• Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

  Paul Hawken

  Art, Business, Top Management

  Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

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• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.57, Bantam

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Inspirational, Real, Work

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Top Management, Service Culture

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• I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Insightful, Way

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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