Management Quotes - Page 2

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

Change is difficult, since it challenges the status quo.

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Experience is costly knowledge.

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Touch paper only once.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills.

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Strategy can turn a losing battle into a winning battle.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques.

The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Entrepreneurs utilize even a negative change positively.

Your savings is your earning actually