Quotes and Sayings About Management
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
-- Adrian SlywotzkySource : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
-- Akio MoritaSource : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
-- Al-Waleed bin TalalSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
-- Al-Waleed bin TalalSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
-- Amanda Marshall -
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
-- Amanda RipleySource : Amanda Ripley (2009). “The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why”, p.63, Random House
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If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
-- Andrea Jung -
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Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
-- Andrew Dobson -
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
-- Andrew Lo -
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
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The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
-- Anthea Turner -
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A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.
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If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.
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Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 117), 1968.
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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
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The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
-- Avinash Persaud -
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Good environmentalism is good economics
-- Barber ConableSource : Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”
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Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
-- Barry Boehm -
Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century
-- Ben Clarke -
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
-- Ben Hogan -
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
-- Bernard Arnault