Famous Quotes about Management (66 Quotations)

Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren't well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn't soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happen on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

The difference between management and administration(which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

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

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

The one word that makes a good manager — decisiveness.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.