Top Management Quotes

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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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

Art, Business, Interesting

Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Business, Women

Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

Leadership, Average, People

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Henry Mintzberg

Change, Art, Practice

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.57, Bantam

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

Paul Stanley

Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Civil War

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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

Time, Want, Use

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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles R. Schwab

Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Inspirational, Change, Success

New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.

Douglas Conant

Appreciation, Winning, Rewards And Recognition

Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey

Witty, Mean, People

"Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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Real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

Real, Middle Management, People

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If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Marian Diamond

Change, Workout, Emotional

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

Jill Shalvis

Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Fake

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

Jack Welch

Creativity, Keys, Light

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If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Connie Sellecca

Happiness, Success, Happy

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Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Stephen Covey

Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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