Best Top Management Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.”

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Author:Marc Rich

“What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.”

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Book:Competing for the Future

Source: Competing for the Future

“The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.”

“"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.”

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Author:Robert Townsend

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

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Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

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

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“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.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“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.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“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.”

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Book:Management of Inspection and Quality Control

Source: Management of Inspection and Quality Control

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

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

“The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

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

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

“When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”

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

“Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.”

“Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“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.”

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Book:Growing a Business

Source: Growing a Business

“Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.”

“Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.”

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Author:Robert H. Johnson

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

“. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .”

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Author:Buck Rodgers

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

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

“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”

“In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.”

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Author:Carl Icahn

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”

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Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.”

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Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

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