Management Quotes

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Be candid with everyone.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

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

Manage the cause, not the result.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

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

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

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

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

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

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

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

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

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

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

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

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

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

The only thing that matters is the theater!

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

A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

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?

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Making more money will not solve your problems if cash flow management is your problem.