Management Quotes - Page 31

• I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Kicking, Attention, Want

  Eugene H. Peterson (2011). “The Pastor: A Memoir”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Successful, Average

  Diane Ravitch (2013). “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools”, p.219, Vintage

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• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  Ina Garten

  Fun, White, Office

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Humility, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Boss, Leaving

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• Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.

  Simon Sinek

  Tree, Monkeys, Ass

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.82, Penguin

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• People treat you like s*** when you're a doorman or a busboy. I licked envelopes for eight hours a day for this management company and cried half the time I was there while the managers were on the phone working.

  Bobby Lee

  Eight, Phones, People

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• Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Horse, Jobs

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• I hope to be back in management in the next future

  Paul Ince

  Next

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• The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Hurt, Innovation, Quality

  Business Week, 2007.

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• I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

  Stuart Pearce

  Men, Thinking, Skills

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• My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Book, Loss, Cooking

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• An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Integrity, Organization, Healthy

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry

  Andy Grove

  Jobs, Learning, Knowledge

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• We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

  Pat Travers

  Years, Battle, Trying

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of development...both Marine Ecosystems and Global Change and Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans are valuable troves that could profitably be mined, and any academic bookshelf would wear them well.

  Carl Safina

  Art, Ocean, Book

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Depression, Years, Political

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• And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

  Steve Case

  Couple, Past, People

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• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Views, Long

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.209, John Wiley & Sons

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• CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Men, Affair

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cycling, Hands, Ties

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• In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

  Kaoru Ishikawa

  People, Doe, Firsts

  "Quality Management Systems: A Practical Guide". Book by Howard S Gitlow, p.3, 2000.

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• Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Commitment

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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