Top 1200 Quality Management Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.

Management is something I'd like to do in the future, so I look at the different ways of training, the routines.

Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

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

I would be ready to rejoin Nightwish if all the members of the band and the management team were changed.

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

In many respects, Arizona is a model for the rest of the country on best practices for water management.

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

With management and employees on the same side of the table, your interests are aligned, and shareholders look at you as one.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.

Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.

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

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

I've got a good backing behind me with my management team, and my family are all down to earth.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it's suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.

The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.

You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.

Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned, the information can be woefully inadequate, they are sometimes seen to be opaque and their advertising is clearly recognised as not being of a global standard. For local brands, quality, innovation and transparency are critical hills to climb.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.

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

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

If the team management asks me to bat at a certain position, I am always ready for that.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

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

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.