Management Quotes - Page 7

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

Leadership is service, not position.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Molly. I have an opportunity for you.”“An opportunity?” I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Next comes the part where he tells me to be a “team player” and then dumps some tedious task on me.“It’s a chance for you to show that you can be a team player,” Bill Vogel said.

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.

A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

Instead of casting aspersions at the process, why don’t you redirect your energy towards something more advantageous, like finally completing the Program!

We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.

Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position as you dreamed about...

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

A car crash at seventy-five miles an hour results in glass and steel strewn about the roadway. Emergency workers attend to the injured drivers, passengers and bystanders, and remove the wreckage. An electronic communication wreck lacks the visual drama, but imparts damage just as real and just as permanent. A momentary lapse in judgment may prove catastrophic for the writer, their family, coworkers, and stakeholders.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Your traditional EDUCATION is not going to CHANGE your life but the life you are experiencing that can change you. Choose a POSITIVE life STYLE with positive ATTITUDE which could bring you a life with HAPPINESS and WISDOM

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.

This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.

Most people do not see their words as power.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle.

Anything plus management amounts to success

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple – the most important factor is motivation.

Make sure a conflict exists before working to resolve it.

Perseverance guarantees success.

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Strategy can win over tricky situations.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

The concern of a team member is also the concern of the team.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Manager! Have brain - use it!

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.

Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Work always makes a difference.

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

That's why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness."And it was true, she realized. She didn't run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn't give orders just to make herself feel important. Well, at least she wouldn't anymore. No. The day before, she hadn't missed that part of her job at all. She had missed the baking. She had missed creating something for others to enjoy.And, oh, how she wanted to go back to work!

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors.

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.