Top 520 Management Quotes

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn’t brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what’s going wrong.

A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

Time management is really important.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

It’s good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know he’ll give management his best shot.

My recipes aren’t geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Management relationship, it’s very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.

A good coach is good in the management of his men; he gives all of his players the desire to fight until the last.

I’m someone who takes on information quite well, so there’s maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level – it’s a completely different ball game – so I think I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.

The tech industry – and, more specifically, Silicon Valley – continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

First need in the reform of hospital management? That’s easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

In long term investments, you don’t need day to day management.

The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off ‘Nitro’ for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.

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.

Management is not about shouting and bawling, because some guys will not like that. They take it personally.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

Westerners deserve a voice in the land-use decisions that affect their daily lives, and it would be wrong to move the Bureau of Land Management thousands of miles away from the land it manages back to a faceless marble building in D.C.

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

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

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

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

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today – and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it – is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Legg Mason’s structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I’m an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

I’m actually studying hospitality and I have a concentration in event planning and design. I study mostly around event management and a little bit of business.

Management has never been the most important thing for me.

Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I’m doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

Time management is the mantra of my life.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

I consciously make an effort to get to know some of the women who may be in the middle of the organization – they’re not at senior management levels – and try to figure out whether there’s a new opportunity they can take on that enables them to shine and succeed in a way they may not have in the past.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

I don’t think football management is easy.

That’s management. It’s a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

If you have poor management that’s not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and… page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Management teams aren’t good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

One thing that will never change as a manager is that there is so much game stuff and management stuff to deal with that you want good information.

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

I’m proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what’s unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O’Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn’t.

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

No, my entire life is planned. It’s called time management.

Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines – the one that everyone seems to forget.

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, ‘Oh, it’s so cool ‘Home’ is being used in the Olympics!’ We don’t really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

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

There has to be active, hands-on management in concert with the manager to lead the organization and make sure that the standards that we set for the organization as a whole are being lived up to.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

From doing Power Station, it was like, it’s the same guys, but it doesn’t sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. I’m also learning to play the piano – I’m quite determined – it’s another release from the pressure of my job.