~ Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ~
~ Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. ~
~ Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ~
~ Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ~
~ The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ~
~ Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~
~ Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ~
~ 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. ~
~ So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work ~
~ The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds. ~
~ The smaller the function, the greater the management. ~
~ 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. . . ~