61 Top Management Quotes For Inspiration
Management is the process of dealing with or controlling things or people.
1. No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
Bill Terry
2. Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney
3. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
4. People tend to take time for granted, and then begin to realize its value and importance only when there is hardly any left of it.
Anonymous
5. The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Al Lopez
6. We don't want managers to manage our change. We want leaders to lead our progress.
Dean Lindsay
7. Ask yourself, if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow?
Anonymous
8. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken
9. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
10. It was just poor management. Looking at it from a professional point of view, the procedures and policies weren't there to control things.
Frank Rawa
11. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
12. Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. Thomas Edison
13. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden
14. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
15. To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman
16. When your management style is a hammer, everything & everyone begins to look like a nail
Anonymous
17. Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.
Richard Branson
18. Efficiency is doing things right effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
19. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
20. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
21. The easiest way to grow, is to let Go. Knowing, that someone else is managing the show.
Anonymous
22. Time management is really a misnomer. The challenge is not to manage time but to manage ourselves. The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities
Stephen Covey
23. My most romantic job i was a manager at Baskin Robbins.
Eric McCormack
24. A good manager finds satisfaction in helping others be productive, not being the most productive person in the room.
Paul Glen
25. Crisis management has been elevated to a very fine skill under his tutelage.
Lyle Gramley
26. Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves
Ken Robinson
27. Sports betting is money management, So the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
Bruce Dern
28. I think that stupid people were put on this planet to test my anger management skills
Anonymous
29. The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson
30. If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's risky business.
Gary Cohn
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31. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
32. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
33. My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch
34. Technical skills may get you the job, but soft skills can make you or break you as a manager
Anonymous
35. What’s absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
Peter Drucker
36. Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
37. Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Pat Riley
38. There will be no management meeting today
Anonymous
39. Your career is your business. It's time for you to manage it as a CEO.
Dorit Sher
40. Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Le Iacocca
41. When you let anger get the best of you it brings out the worst in you
Anonymous
42. The key for us has always been hiring very smart people.
Bill Gates, Microsoft
43. Leaders are people who do the right things. Managers are people who do things right
Anonymous
44. Coming Together Is A Beginning, keeping Together Is Progress & Working together is success.
Henry Ford
45. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
46. The right people, at the right time is so much more than just a process.
Anonymous
47. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Anonymous
48. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
49. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
50. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
51. What you can measure you can change.
Peter Drucker
53. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
54. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
55. Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Le Lacocca
56. Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed.
Paulson Frenckner
57. When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.
Barbara
58. Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.
Philip Kotler
59. People don't leave bad companies, they leave bad managers.
Marcus Buckingham
60. Multilevel multitasking multiplied multiple times is event management.
Rehan Waris
61. To manage a #business well is to manage its future, & to manage the future is to manage information.
Marion Harper