Great Management Quotes:

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

- Agha Hasan Abedi

topic: Real, People, Done, Top Management, Managing People

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.8, Harper Collins

topic: Money, Worst Enemy, Greed, Best Investment, Capital Investment

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

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

topic: Keys, Two, Judgement, Recruitment, Great Management

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

- James C. Collins

topic: People, Insightful, Vision, Great Management, Great Vision

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Change, Meaningful, Survival, Top Management, Systems Change

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

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

source: Paul Hawken (1988). “Growing a Business”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Interesting, Good Man, Top Management, Leadership And Management

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Had A Great Time, Managing Time

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Language And Communication, Language Skills

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

- William Penn

topic: Time, Want, Use, Had A Great Time, Top Management

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Top Management, Management Motivation

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Time, Short Life, Had A Great Time, Managing Time

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Business, Insperational, Leadership And Management, Leadership Skills

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Top Management, Leaders Motivational

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational, Managing Change, Inspirational Presidential

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Inspiring, Meaningful, Imagine That, Inspirational Design

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

topic: Business, People, Routine, Top Management, Managing People

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: People, Insightful, Way, Recruitment, Great Management

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Management Motivation, Managing People

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management, Management Motivation, Managing People

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: School, Army, Years, Theorists, Great Management

There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.

- Rob Dyrdek

topic: Smart, Keys, People, Great Management

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Opportunity, Long, Management, Great Company, Timer

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

- Olivia Stuck

topic: Team, Agents, Roles, Great Management