Management Quotes

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Dave Barry

The first century of the new Millennium will belong … also to biotechnology which will bring unprecedented advances in human and animal health, agriculture and food production, manufacturing and sustainable environmental management

Ben Ngubane

Jack Nicklaus was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player

Lee Trevino

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Pat Riley

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

Agha Hasan Abedi

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.

Lewis Lehr

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.

Henry Mintzberg

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Peter Drucker

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. . .

Peter F. Drucker

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter F. Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work

Peter F. Drucker

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller