Management Quotes

"The smaller the function, the greater the management."
-C. Northcote Parkinson

""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."
-Robert Townsend

"I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given."
-Chuck Tanner

"A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him."
-H. S. M. Burns

"Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights."
-Whitey Herzog

"No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management."
-Bill Terry

"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."
-George W. Bush

"If the board isn't keeping the association informed and making decisions that are proper for the association, then a management company can't make those decisions or set the agenda or force them to spend money on things that need to be done."
-James Strichartz

"Successful emergency management relies upon experience and expertise."
-Leo Bosner

"Thermal management is a major challenge to increasing a laser's power."
-Yulin Wang

"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."
-James Macgregor Burns

"They said they were investing in their growth, which is something we pay management to do. The fact that the market takes this perverse view is baffling."
-Mark Husson

"It's management that spoiled the fruit."
-John Wanous

"We felt these guys were a good match. We have a financial investor who believes in our strategy, in our management and wants to be in the business."
-Jeff Collier

"You can't criticize Independence Air's management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn't working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid."
-Tim Sieber

"It was very convenient for Time Warner management that people are really excited about AOL right now."
-Patrick J. Mahoney

"You have to pay competitively but usually if someone leaves a company it's not about the money. You leave a company when you are unhappy with the management."
-David Cunningham

"IT directors and administrators need to look for a comprehensive, all-around solution to data management to bring about corporate governance, compliance and efficient storage management."
-Dianne Mcadam

"That's a real good example of what emergency management does. The first response I got was, 'You can't do that.' (But) you never hesitate to respond."
-Michael Purcaro

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
-Peter F. Drucker

"We're really aggressive about energy management. The less electricity you have to use, the less you have to generate. Renewable energy is great, but if you don't even have to use that, that's better."
-Luke Cartin

"We have a strong interest in Richie. Negotiations are on-going with his management - we are not in a hurry."
-Michael Searle

"It was record assets under management, record sales, record earnings per share."
-Barry Griswell

"We concur with the Joint Election Management Board that the candidates' demand to nullify the election is unjustified."
-Robert Barry

"It could be in the form of ownership of properties, equity investments, joint ventures, management contract or franchises."
-Stephen Ford

"The fact that the deal now is finally negotiated is good news, as management can now focus on core activities."
-Robert Heberger

"This is an agency that is very difficult to work for right now. They're out to intimidate the workforce and assert these management rights."
-Doug Church

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
-Peter F. Drucker