Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen R. Covey
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work
Peter F. Drucker
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter F. 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
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
Peter Drucker
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.
Casey Stengel
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
Donald Rumsfeld
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones
Horace
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi
The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett