Managers Quotes - Page 2

• 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

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• A leader leads by example not by force.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, War, Army

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.123, Routledge

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• Real management is developing people through work.

  Agha Hasan Abedi

  Real, Top Management, Middle Management

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

  Jill Shalvis

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Jobs, Our Society, Talent

  Henry Mintzberg (1989). “Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Business, Leader

  Twitter post from Dec 20, 2015

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• The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

  Lee Iacocca

  Decision, Management, Economy

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• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going.

  Rands

  Leader, Where You Are

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• A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Leadership, Doing Your Best, Know Me

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• Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Strong

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• I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Hey, Imagine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Something New, Status Quo

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• To assure the prosperity of a firm should be a long-term strategy and the turnover of key managers should be taken into account from the stand point of long-term consideration and not from the monthly or quarterly flavors.

  Masaaki Imai

  Taken, Keys, Long

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• I think Pep Guardiola is a top manager. There's no doubt about that. Not only did he manage Messi and Iniesta, but he made them better and took them to levels they'd never been before. The best team I've ever seen is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. I'm sure his management got something to do with that.

  Jamie Carragher

  Team, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Atmosphere

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