Management Quotes

- “The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”
- “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
- “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
- “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
- “All time management begins with planning.”
- “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work”
- “A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.”
- “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.”
- “Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
- “"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.”
- “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.”
- “Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management”
- “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.”
- “The smaller the function, the greater the management.”
- “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. . .”
- “Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.”
- “No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.”
- “If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.”
- Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
- If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.