Great Management Quotes

• 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.

  381 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  852 Copy quote

• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  292 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  71 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  William Penn

  Time, Top Management, Want

  131 Copy quote

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

  326 Copy quote

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

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  394 Copy quote

• 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

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  691 Copy quote

• 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

  69 Copy quote

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

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

  955 Copy quote

• 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

  157 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  41 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Lee Iacocca

  People, Insightful, Way

  14 Copy quote

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  119 Copy quote

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  297 Copy quote

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

  9 Copy quote

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source