Management Quotes - Page 36

• Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

  Douglas Merrill

  Waste, Time Management, Life Time

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• Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

  Douglas Merrill

  Issues, Way, Time Management

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• Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  Guy Finley

  Worry, Needs, May

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 13, 2014

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• We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.

  Sam Huff

  Time Management, Hours

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• You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.

  Al Koran

  Want, Time Management, Making Time

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• One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

  Brian Tracy

  Effectiveness, Important, Time Management

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

  Brian Tracy

  Tasks, Time Management, Facts

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  P. T. Barnum

  Thinking, Class, Giving

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• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  T. Harv Eker

  Skills, Cards, Credit

  "Q&A: T. Harv Eker Talks Money, Debt and Breaking Bad Habits". Interview with Sally Herigstad, www.foxbusiness.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

  T. Harv Eker

  Matter, Lows, Right Now

  "Q&A: T. Harv Eker Talks Money, Debt and Breaking Bad Habits". Interview with Sally Herigstad, www.foxbusiness.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Communication, Skills

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• Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Sound, Conservation, Lost

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• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

  Bill Joy

  Done, Littles, Way

  "Joy Shtick". Interview with Kevin Kelly, Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. August 1, 1998.

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• Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

  Bill Joy

  People, Matter, Who You Are

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• You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Leader, Important

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

  Donald J. Carty

  Years, Lasts, Faults

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• When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.

  Zig Ziglar

  Business Success, Sides, Employers

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• Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

  Barry Boehm

  Teamwork, Poor Management, Cost

  "Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications". Book by Tyson Gill (p. 14), 2002.

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• Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Business, Hands

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• Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Destiny, Talking

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• Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Disappointment, Learning

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

  Tom Peters

  Learning, Knowledge, Pissed Off

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