Management Quotes

Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.

For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

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

inspect what you expect

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

Some leaders lead from the front.

A team is more than the sum of the individuals.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

Time well-spent is life well-lived.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

The Four Keys of Great Managers:1. "When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination."2. "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps."3. "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses."4. "When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

Leadership is about taking steps while management is about drawing the map on the steps to take. Managers simply plan, leaders simply execute!

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.

Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Regular and concentrated training makes an expert.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

Change is constant.

Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. ( " Expectations " )

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort you put into scoring against your opponents, and defense is the effort you apply to stop them from scoring against you. Those who suggest that "a little healthy competition can't hurt" are thinking only of the offense part....The offense component of internal competition is problematic, but the defense component is always injurious. When peer managers play defense against each other (try to stop each other from scoring), they are engaging in anticooperation.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Any change holds an opportunity.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

A wise manager knows that it is sometimes more important to listen than to talk.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.

To the disrupters go the spoils.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.

If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM and enthusiasm will give you a positive energetic LIFE STYLE which could give you a successful exiting life…

You can easily manage what you create. Create time for what you dream of accomplishing and you will manage it till it's done and done well!

The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, ‘This is wrong’. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature’s management.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.