Management Quotes - Page 4

• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

  Edgar Schein

  Leadership, Real, Creating

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Incidents, Should, Policy

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• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Individual, Duty

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• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

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• When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Book, Mean, Clean House

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• People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Business

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

  Paula Zahn

  Thinking, Way, Delighted

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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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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• A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Jobs, People

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• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, People, Succeed

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• 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.

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• I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

  T. Harv Eker

  War, School, Secret

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• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Leadership, Technique, Ethics

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• ...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Leadership, Business, Max

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.129, Penguin

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• Catch someone doing something right.

  Ken Blanchard

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

  Tim Gould

  Funny Work, Middle Management, Boss

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• Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

  Charlie Munger

  Decision, Understanding, Vices

  Muppets ask questions and experts answer, 25iq.com. September 21, 2012.

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