Poor Management Quotes

• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fate, Destiny, Funny Work

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• Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Plant, Workmanship, Management

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• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  Eli Broad

  Jobs, Unions, Pages

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

  Barry Boehm

  Teamwork, Cost, Programming

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

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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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• It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Fire, Acres, Able

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• Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

  Barry Boehm

  Cost, Development, Action

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