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“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The Lord stimulates our growth this way.... The Lord blesses us far beyond our natural ability and experience. However, it has been my experience that he expects us to quickly exert ourselves and acquire the things we need. He gives us a little time to improve our management skills and detailed knowledge so that we don't have to rely upon him for everything. We'll always need inspiration in these areas we couldn't possibly understand without his help.”

“Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.”

Products Management Prosperity God Provides

Author:Matthew Ashimolowo

“Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.”

World Crazy Stupid Management Strategy Financial Money Management

Author:William C. Brown

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.”

Decision Economy Management Managers One Word Decisiveness Good Manager

Author:Lee Iacocca

“The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.”

People Trying Looks Kind Guy Economy Management Excellence Expected Spots Beavers Maverick Top Management Eager Beaver

Author:Lee Iacocca

“Management is simple, innovation is hard.”

Hard Simple Innovation Management

Author:James Cook

“Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances.”

World Mind Form Life Is Quality Circumstances Management Abundance Scarce Scarcity

Author:Robin Sharma

“No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.”

Ifs Fall Aim Management Method Profit Enterprise Sole Prey Private Enterprise

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.”

Stills America Political Hate Situation Enemy Environment Proud Members Musician Connections I Hate Management Concerts Orchestra Conductor

Author:Neeme Jarvi

“Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.”

Helping Our Lives Skills Tools Management Time Management

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.”

“The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.”

Culture Individual Industry Skills Illusion Management Investment Aberration Investment Management

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.”

Important Character Difficult Deals Elements Stress Management Factors Qualitative

Book:Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

Source: Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

“I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.”

Thinking Writing Long Together Stuff Term Support Elements Management Long Term Time Management

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

Should Years Long Reason Seems Term Lessons Ten Years Ago Should Have Management Investment Primaries Long Term Belly

Author:Richard Thaler

“Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.”

Prove Management Socialism Fanatics Daily Experience

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.”

“'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.”

Thinking Men Humans Different Today Practice Circumstances Behavior Management Foundation Investment Crowds Brilliant Foolish Tendencies Folly Investors Lemmings Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.”

Humans Past Human Nature Terrible Management Recent Past

Author:Charlie Munger

“In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.”

Ifs Needs Real Whole Character Forget Management Analysis Outcomes Assets Reviews Cash Competence

Author:Peter Cundill

“The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.”

“I'm really happy to be working with CES Boxing, Gary Shaw Productions and Eye of the Tiger Management. It shows the direction in which Golden Boy Promotions is heading - in terms of bringing the best fights to the fans. It shows that Golden Boy Promotions is willing to work with anybody in order to satisfy the boxing fans.”

Shows Eye Order Fighting Term Boys Fans Willing Management Productions Golden Boxing Tigers Promotion Headings Really Happy Gary Golden Boy

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people. . . . Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.”

People Thinking Way Nations Imagination Quality Steps Style Management Excellence Dedication Boundless Good Business Quality Management

Author:George H. W. Bush

“It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.”

Knows Enough Action Quality Support Management Committed Productivity Obligation Commit Top Management

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.”

Needs Important Successful Figures Accounts Management Visible Being Successful Nevertheless

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.”

Mean Littles Practice Succeed Management Factors Good Man Elsewhere Bias Employed

Author:Masaaki Imai

“It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.”

Littles Important Happens Interest Quality Management Absence Manifestation Sincere Top Management

Book:Management of Inspection and Quality Control

Source: Management of Inspection and Quality Control

“There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.”

Management Remedy Inefficiency

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“Good businesses can survive a little bad management.”

Littles Management Good Business

Author:Charlie Munger

“It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.”

“The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.”

People Way Wells Today Terrible Paid Management Like Something Money Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.”

Men Natural Brain Huge Easier Management Investment Physics Income Sugar Banking Incentives Ants Money Management Investment Banking

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.”

Thinking Said Reason Stories Guy Position Management Green Sells Investment Fishes Managers Reason Why Fishing Purple Salesman Lure Idiocy Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.”

“The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.”

School Order Difficult Walks Path Management Conception Beaten Beaten Path

Author:John Dewey

“The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.”

Hands Management Investment Assets Steady Treasured Steady Hands Investment Management

Author:Robert D. Arnott

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.”

Ifs Problem Hands Given Creativity Management Solve Manage

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.”

Important Management Productivity Enjoyment Engineering Engineers Stem

Author:Rob Pike

“And knowledge management is a means, not an end.”

Mean Ends Management Knowledge Management

Author:Bill Gates

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

Ifs Looks Life Is Middle Management

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.”

Art Different Philosophy Asks Brain Issues Activity Ultimate Management Personal Leadership Ultimate Questions

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

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

Individual Management Chairs Efficient Deck Effective Leadership

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn't going to give up. I wanted Daniel Craig, and Michael wanted Daniel Craig, so we just stuck to our guns. Fortunately, we had the right management who really stuck with us. Thanks to that, we got our choice. He's been an extraordinary Bond, and he is very much the right Bond for the 21st century.”

Ifs Giving Wanted Choices Fighting Century Giving Up Gun Management Raised Extraordinary Stuck Thanks 21st Century Our Choices Sean

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.”

People Needs Years Wells Has Beens Couple Management Billions Wilderness

Author:Roderick Nash

“It's a whole different attitude toward public service than it once was. I tell you, we can all sit around in our old age and moan about it, but I think the administrative processes and the management effectiveness of the federal government are terrible!”

Thinking Different Whole Government Age Process Attitude Terrible Management Old Age Federal Government Effectiveness Public Service Administrative Different Attitude

Author:Paul Volcker

“One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.”

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