Top 1200 Top Management Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

We're trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.

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

The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails.

The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.

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

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

I think as a manager you want to manage at the highest level possible and international management is one of those higher levels.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I had a little radio next to the bed and I'd just listen to the top 10 - I mean, it was crap but I was young - and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn't have a CD player... so it was kind of all I had, you know?

Time management is surely the most critical aspect of acing multiple arenas: home, work, and family.

Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake,' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger Management,' that's my comedy.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

I'd like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

The people who need help, run and get help. They don't remember where they get the help. If the devil wants to reach the top, then the devil trying to use God to reach the top. 'Cause the devil have no creation. The devil can't copy.

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Any struggle or pain that you experience just gets you to the top, and you can't get there without making the climb. A few years later, you won't remember exactly the way the pain felt or how long it took, you'll just remember the view from the top. In fact, you might smile at the fact you had to work to get there.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's proof that your song is being heard. But I think it's more about the work for me and being proud of what I'm doing in music than what people think about my music. I want to like my music before you like it. I don't want to sell anything that I don't really like. I don't want to sell myself short just to get to the top of the charts. It doesn't feel that great. Feeling proud of your work feels greater than being at the top of the charts.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

Many liberals argue that big U.S. companies don't really pay the top corporate rate. While this is sometimes true, it's mainly because, during recessions, companies lose money, and get a tax loss carryforward that temporarily reduces their effective rate. But during economic expansions, when profits rise, companies then do pay the top rate.

No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

Considering fighters are usually going to want to fight the best, they need to be protected from themselves. That's where management should come in.

Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

As in most subjects relating to money management, there's a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification.

My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

I was always intrigued by management and I wish I could turn the clock back and pick the brains of each of my managers.