Management Quotes - Page 8

• There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

  James A. Champy

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• People are entitled to joy in work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, Joy, Entitled

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• People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  People, Care

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• When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Giving Up, People, Wish

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• When we cooperate, everybody wins.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Winning

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• Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Theory

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• You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Information, Dictionary

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• Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Highways, Defects

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, May

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• We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

  Walter Schloss

  Talking, Investing, Deals

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• Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

  V. Vale

  Time Management, Life Is

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• Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.

  James F. Bell, III

  Jobs, Effort, Balance

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

  Francois Fenelon

  Wise, Time, Two

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• No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Organization, Assessment, Views

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• In a healthy system, there is no blame.

  Michael J. Schmoker

  Healthy, Blame

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• Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management.  This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, Government, Community

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Smart, People, Phrases

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure... ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.

  Monroe Trout

  Differences, Play, Risk

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• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

  James C. Collins

  People, Leader, Transition

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Angel, Night

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• This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

  Edward Lampert

  Thinking, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  Eugene Fama

  Zero, Winning, Games

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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