Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Management

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Scholar, Novelist, Satirist

Most management-speak is, as Schrijvers points out, Panglossian balderdash designed to lull the weak and credulous
Anonymous

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
Ken Blanchard (b.1939) American Author, Management Consultant

Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren’t important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II…Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men’s work.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

There is no class of men so difficult to be managed in a state as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Tommy Lasorda (1927–2021) American Baseball Player, Coach

I don’t know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn’t offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.
William Hewlett (1913–2001) American Engineer, Inventor, Businessperson

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021) U.S. Secretary of Defense

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) King of France

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren’t well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn’t soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happen on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.
Unknown

The leader follows in front.
Common Proverb

Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
Common Proverb

A manager is an assistant to his men.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive

A man is known by the company he organizes.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American Businessperson

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) French Historian, Political Scientist

Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
Colin Powell (1937–2021) American Military Leader

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

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