Management famous quotes

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Yale #League #Management

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
-- Adrian Slywotzky

#Risk #Information #Management

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
-- Akio Morita

#Thinking #Management #Company

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
-- Akio Morita

#Japan #Management #Concern

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#America #Management #Stakes

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Class #Lessons #Management

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.
-- Alcee Hastings

#Responsibility #Government #Management

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Change #Management #Easier

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Inspirational #Management #Despise

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
-- Amanda Marshall

#Careers #Band #Management

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
-- Amanda Ripley

#Risk #Events #Management

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
-- Andrea Jung

#Succeed #Management #Difficult

Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
-- Andrew Dobson

#Time Management #Management #Time Passes

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
-- Andrew Lo

#Risk #Management #Investment

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Business #Management

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
-- Anthea Turner

#Trying #Firsts #Management

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Management #Process #Results

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Cybernetics #Management #Profession

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Organization #People #Management

Time is the supreme Law of nature.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Law #Time Management #Management

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Artist #America #Management

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Library #Management #Volume

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
-- Aubrey Daniels

#Fads #Management #Behavior

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
-- Avinash Persaud

#Risk #Management #Assumption

Good environmentalism is good economics
-- Barber Conable

#Business #Management #Economics

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
-- Barry Boehm

#Teamwork #Cost #Management

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
-- Ben Clarke

#Business #Opportunity #Management

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
-- Ben Hogan

#Golf #Management #Talent

He who gains time gains everything.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Gains #Time Management #Management

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Creative #Sides #Management

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Design #Creative #Management

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
-- Bill Joy

#Technology #Management #Problem

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
-- Bill Joy

#People #Matter #Management

Good work is always done in defiance of management.
-- Bob Woodward

#Design #Done #Management

Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management
-- Bobby Gould

#Needs #Management #Newcastle

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
-- Brian Epstein

#Ideas #Management #Wells

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
-- Brian Tracy

#Humorous #Management #Deviation

Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest
-- Brooks Johnson

#Stress #Training #Management

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.
-- Bruce Berkowitz

#Past #Today #Management

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .
-- Buck Rodgers

#People #Management #Should

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Management #Function

I head a nation of a million presidents.
-- Chaim Weizmann

#President #Management

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
-- Charles Duhigg

#People #Stronger #Management

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
-- Charles Edwards

#Tools #Management #Obstacles

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
-- Charles M. Schwab

#Management #Labor #Position

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
-- Cheryl Crawford

#Teaching #Administration #Management

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
-- Chris Argyris

#People #Facts #Management

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
-- Chris Hardwick

#Age #Information #Management

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.
-- Chris Lytle

#Rookies #Management #Forgotten

When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
-- Clay Shirky

#Philosophy #Tools #Management

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,
-- Clayton Christensen

#Noble #Management #Wells

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
-- Colin Powell

#Team #Fads #Management

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
-- Colin Powell

#Leadership #Art #Management

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.
-- Criss Angel

#Pain #Understanding #Management

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.
-- Dale E. Jones

#Risk #Management #Transparency

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.
-- David Hemmings

#Tasks #Management #Hotel

Management by Walking Around
-- David Packard

#Management #Walking

There is no business on a dead planet
-- David R. Brower

#Business #Management #Economics

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
-- David Stern

#Smart #Agents #Management

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success
-- Debbie Moore

#Business #Recipes #Management

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
-- Debi Mazar

#Mother #Way #Management

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Quality #Needs #Management

Management has to be where the action is.
-- Dieter Zetsche

#Action #Management

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
-- Donald Luskin

#Fundamentals #Filters #Management

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
-- Douglas McGregor

#Average #Management #Ingenuity

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
-- Douglas Merrill

#Waste #Time Management #Management

Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
-- Douglas Merrill

#Mean #Time Management #Management

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
-- E. B. White

#Government #Earth #Management

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
-- Ed Bliss

#Time Management #Management #Projects

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.
-- Ed Bliss

#Time Management #Management #Fats

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
-- Edward de Bono

#Learning #Knowledge #Management

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
-- Edward Kennedy

#Management #Terrorism #Torture

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.
-- Edward Yourdon

#Thinking #Quality #Management

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
-- Eliot Spitzer

#Management #Behavior #Profit

No worry before its time.
-- Ellen Langer

#Worry #Time Management #Management

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Management #Affair #Qualifications

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Memories #Management #Problem

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.
-- Etienne Wenger

#Knowledge #Corporations #Management

Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.
-- Evan Esar

#Unions #Firsts #Management

Again, racing for me was about energy management.
-- Frank Shorter

#Racing #Energy #Management

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
-- Fred Brooks

#Pilots #Management #Plans

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.
-- Fred L. Turner

#Groups #Management #Lows

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.
-- Gary Cohn

#Risk #Matter #Management

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
-- Gary Hamel

#Innovation #Rewards #Management

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
-- Gary Hamel

#Belief #Management #Renewal

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
-- Gary Hirshberg

#Business #Quality #Management

Jesus was a management expert too.
-- George Carey

#Jesus #Experts #Management

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
-- George E. P. Box

#Cynical #Empowerment #Management

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
-- Germaine Greer

#Important #Fertility #Management

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.
-- Glenn Tipton

#England #Management #Problem

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
-- Grace Hopper

#People #Management #Overboard

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
-- Guy Fawkes

#Risk #Disease #Management

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.
-- Gwen Ifill

#Jobs #President #Management

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#Worry #Needs #Management

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
-- Hans Blix

#Information #Management #Intention

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away
-- Harold Geneen

#Business #Management #Economics

What you manage in business is people
-- Harold Geneen

#Business #People #Management

Management must manage!
-- Harold Geneen

#Work #Management #Manage

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
-- Harold Geneen

#Decision #Management #Making Decisions

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model
-- Harold Kerzner

#Maturity #Planning #Management