Quotes on Management

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

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

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.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

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

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

He who gains time gains everything.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

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