Wednesday 30 July 2014




Management Quotes


1.      “The first people had questions and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved.”
 – Wind Eagle, American Indian Chief

2.      “If you don’t like change, you’ll going to like irrelevance even less.”

 – General Eric Shinseki

3.      “It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place.”

– John Morley

4.      “The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”

– Herbert Agar
5.      “Great leaders build a workforce for the future. They are human capital developers. Great leaders always ask themselves: “Am I preparred for what’s next?” They invest in themselves by constantly learning.”

– Jonathan Fietzer
6.      “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends”

– Walt Disney
7.      “It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they work together.”

– Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason

8.      “An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader’s premier trait.”

 – Tom Peters
9.      “The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization’s purpose.”

– Stephen R. Covey
10.  “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”

– George Eliot
11.  “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character.  If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

 – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
12.  “Trust becomes a verb when you communicate to others their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”

 – Stephen R. Covey
13.  “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life.  The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

– Mark Twain
14.  “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

– John Wooden
15.  “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

 – Anatole France
16.  “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action.  You just have to find it.  When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

– Mary Kay Ash
17.  “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

– Harry S. Truman
18.  “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

 – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19.  “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

– Thomas Edison

20.  “Strategy gets you on the playing field, but execution pays the bills.”

– George Eubanks
21.  “A life isn’t significant except for isn’t impact on other lives.” 

– Jackie Robinson
22.  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."

—    Jack Welch

"Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich."

—    Robert H. Johnson

"Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it."

—    Proverbs 3:27
23.  "Catch someone doing something right."
—    Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

24.  "Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

—    Paul Dickson

"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."

—    Ronald Reagan

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."

—    Immanuel Kant
25.  "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't."

—    Peter Drucker
26.  "Don't equate activity with efficiency"

—    Harvey Mackay
27.  "Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."

—    Marcus Aurelius
28.  "We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth."

—    Harold J. Leavitt


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

—    Stephen R. Covey
30.  "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."

—    David Ogilvy

31.  "When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard."

—    John W. Gardner
32.  "The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided."

—    Casey Stengel
33.  "A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."


—    John Le Caré
34.  "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."

—Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism

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


—    Peter Drucker
36.  "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet."

—    Henry Mintzberg
McGill University

37.  "If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

—    R Buckminster Fuller
38.  "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."


—    Agha Hasan Abedi
39.  When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.


 - Warren Buffett quotes

40.  Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

-Colin Powell quotes


41.  Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
 


Colin Powell quotes

42.  Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.



  Peter F. Drucker quotes

43 Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.



    Peter F. Drucker quotes

44  Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.  



Peter F. Drucker quotes

45.  A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
 


-Lao Tzu quotes

46.  Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
 


- Kin Hubbard quotes

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



- Anonymous quotes

48.  The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.


- Anonymous quotes


49.  As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.


- Anonymous quotes

50.  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.


 - Anonymous quotes
51.  Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.


- William Shakespeare

52.  Time is the best teacher.  Time is the wisest counselor of all.


- Pericles

53. If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

 – Ray Kroc
54. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.


 –Denis Waitley
55.  Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

– Le Iacocca
56.  Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

 – Dwight D. Eisenhower

57.  The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

                                                   –Peter Drucker
58. Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose!

                                             
                                                  – Max Schmelling
59.     To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is  possible to know about that business.

 – J. Paul Getty
60. I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.


 – Donald Trump
61. To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

– Tony Dorsett
62. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

– Zig Ziglar
63. To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

– Pierre Corneille

65.  Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.


- Delmore Schwartz
66.  Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.


- Rodin

67.  Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.


- Aeschylus
68.  Histories make men wise.


-Francis Bacon
69.  Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.


-William Penn
70.  The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.


- Shoppenhauer
71.  Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.



- Alan Lakein
72.  Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.


- Charles Richards

73.  The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.


- Stephen R. Covey

74.  Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.


- Author Unknown

75.  Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.


- Thomas Jefferson
76.  Make use of time, let not advantage slip.


- William Shakespeare

77.  This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson
78.  A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.


- Charles Darwin

79.  Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.


- Benjamin Franklin
80.  Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!


- Anthony Robbins
81.  Check your priorities.  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.


- Lee Iacocca
82.  It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?


- Henry David Thoreau
83.  Small things matter. Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.


- Lord Chesterfield

84.  You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.


- Doc Childre and Howard Martin
85.  Do only a few things. To do two things at once is to do neither.


Publius Syrus
86.  One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.


-  Chinese Proverb

87.  Focus on the present. Never let yesterday use up today.

-Richard H. Nelson

88.  I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.


- W. Somerset Maugham
89.  It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.


Marcia Wieder
90.  Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.


Sara Paddison
95.  The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.


- Carl Sandburg
96.  You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson
97.  Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.

- Art Buchwald

98. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker quotes

99. A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao Tzu quotes

100.Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard quotes

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59 comments:

  1. 1) Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
    2) Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things
    3) The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    By: Ozoaka Esther Uka-Amaka.

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  2. Do what you know so very well.

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  3. “The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”

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  4. According to Quote five, it is true that great leader usually ask question that “Am I prepared for what’s next?” They invest in themselves by constantly learning.”Great leaders have great mind

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  5. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way
    By: Ifedayo oluwasegun Joseph

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  6. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    By: Owolabi Belinda Mojisola

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  7. In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way
    By: Yusuf Taiwo Yusuf

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  8. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it
    By: Sekiru Oladimeji Semiu

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  9. 1)"Learn to appreciate what you have before it turns into what you had.'
    2) life becomes easier when you delete the negative people from it.'
    3) your life is your message to the world. make sure it's inspiring.

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  10. "If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

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  11. To get ahead of others, be more innovative than others

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  12. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force.

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  13. Quote five emphasized that great leaders see the end from the beginning. They have the spirit of achievement

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  14. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
    By: Obembe Dare Tosin

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  15. Money mistakes can be corrected but time mistakes can't

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  16. “An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader’s premier trait.

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  17. Either raw or liquid cash, every kobo counts

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  18. Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends

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  19. These quotes are applicable except in Nigeria. Our environment is not conducive.

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  20. . “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” -Henry Ford.BY:ADEOTUN KAYODE.A

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  21. “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. “ BY:AKINTOLA SEGUN FOLAHAN

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  22. The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.” BY:IBRAHIM AFEEZ OLAYEMI

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  23. Business apart, Family apart... A business thrieves better when all family pays for their services

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  24. Some of these management quotes are contrary to the principles of Economics and Finance.

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  25. Management is more of an art than science. There is no fast and hard rule to effective management.

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  26. None of these quotes will work in a corrupt environment.

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  27. I advise that some of these management quotes should be written on billboards and placed on every corners in our towns and cities for all to read and adopt the lesson.

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  28. The first people had questions and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved.

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  29. Trust becomes a verb when you communicate to others their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”

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  30. It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they work together.”

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  31. Trust becomes a verb when you communicate to others their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

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  32. I think anyone aspiring for leadership position in Nigeria should be forced to attend the school of management.

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  33. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. By: Kolawole Bashiru

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  34. 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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  35. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all
    Akinrinola Funmilayo Grace

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  36. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

    By: Olugbusi Oluwatosin Temitope

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

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  38. You can change only what people know, not what they do

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  39. Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

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  40. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.when you invest it you'll spend it then

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  41. it is never too late to be who you might have been.cause whatever you plan to be is what you will be.

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  42. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

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  43. Make your brain a database of new ideas and your business a haven of success

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  44. If you wish to rich save what you get. A fool can earn money but it take a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

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  45. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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  46. 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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  47. It is the small rivers that makes an ocean...#TeamWork

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  48. “Great leaders build a workforce for the future. They are human capital developers. Great leaders always ask themselves: “Am I preparred for what’s next?” They invest in themselves by constantly learning.”

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  49. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

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  50. Do things to make people happy, but not to receive praise.

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  51. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

    – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
    12. “Trust becomes a verb when you communicate to others their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.”

    – Stephen R. Covey
    13. “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

    – Mark Twain
    14. “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

    – John Wooden
    15. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

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  52. good one...no business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management

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  53. The quotes are fact on how to manage a business well and to adapt to various information and condition for it to succeed in future.
    ADEWOLE ABOSEDE K

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  54. if you are going to be a good investor, build on fact not opinion

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