Top 1200 Great Management Quotes & Sayings

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

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

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

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?

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

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

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

I have accused L.B. Management of failing to report to me, and I've told L.B. Management the money is missing, and it could very well be embezzled.

On every show I've been on, it's just managing all the different responsibilities and time management. 'The Walking Dead' is a really well-oiled machine, and I have a great number of people who do a great number of things very well.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of development...both Marine Ecosystems and Global Change and Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans are valuable troves that could profitably be mined, and any academic bookshelf would wear them well.

There is not the management of time, there is only the management of you.

Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

I already knew that I wanted to be involved in something that combined management and coding, so I wasn't coding all the time. And I don't want to be in a management position, where that's all I'm doing, and I'm not able to participate in the creation of the technology.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

Good money management alone isn't going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn't any good, you're still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure.

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

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

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.