Top Management Quotes - Page 2

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Peter Drucker

Jobs, Responsibility, Organization

Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

"Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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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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Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.

Robert H. Johnson

Management, Rich, Managers

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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Robert Townsend

Tree, Owl, Forests

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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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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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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

William Penn

Time, Want, Use

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Lee Iacocca

People, Guy, Excellence

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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.

W. Edwards Deming

Support, Quality, Action

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