Best management & managers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.”

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Author:Meek Mill

“The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.”

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Author:Sam Walton

“What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.”

“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

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Author:C. West Churchman

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The key to management is to get rid of the managers.”

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Author:Ricardo Semler

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.”

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Author:Carlos Ghosn

“In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.”

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Book:The New Art of Managing People

Source: The New Art of Managing People

“The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.”

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Author:Akio Morita

“As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.”

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Book:The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

Source: The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

“Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.”

“Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.”

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Author:Mary Kay Ash

“I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.”

Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur

“Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

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Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.”

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Author:Burton Malkiel

“Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting from its systematic exploitation of individual investors... as funds extract enormous sums from investors in exchange for providing a shocking disservice... Excessive management fees take their toll, and manager profits dominate fiduciary responsibility.”

“A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”

“Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.”

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Author:Adam Smith

“Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.”

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Author:Robert Townsend

“I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.”

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Author:Reggie Jackson

“If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.”

“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

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

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture.”

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Author:SonReal

“In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.”

“One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.”

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Author:Robert F. Engle

“I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it.”

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Author:Robert F. Engle

“Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'”

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Author:Brian L. Joiner

“I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.”

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Author:Luis von Ahn

“I think Pep Guardiola is a top manager. There's no doubt about that. Not only did he manage Messi and Iniesta, but he made them better and took them to levels they'd never been before. The best team I've ever seen is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. I'm sure his management got something to do with that.”

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Author:Jamie Carragher

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Good managers have a bias for action.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.”

“Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.”

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Author:Carlos Ghosn

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