Quotes on Management

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

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

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.