Management

Management requires the insight of knowing what needs to be accomplished and having the skills to motivate your team to accomplish it.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
Ronald Reagan

Someone who can help a project to jell is worth two people who just do the work.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Ton DeMarco

The manager's function, they write, is not to make people work but to make it possible for people to work.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Ton DeMarco

Don't manage. Lead.
Jack Welch

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking someone to do it.
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce

Wait for the cream to rise, then scoop it off the top.

If you want a product with certain characteristics, you must ensure that the team has those characteristics before the product's development.
Jim McCarthy

You only hire someone for the team who will push you to be greater.
Jim McCarthy

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it
James Agate

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Brian Tracy

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
David Bly

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

I buy when other people are selling.
The Great Getty Crown 85 by Robert Lenzner
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
The Gospel of Wealth, 1998
Andrew Carnegie

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
Michael Dell

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney

Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal.
Walt Disney

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Henry Ford

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford

Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.
Speech on Synergy '98 Europe
Bill Gates

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Henry J. Kaiser

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Edwin Land (1901-91), Polaroid Inventor

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. Rockefeller

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwab

In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.
Alfred P. Sloan

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton

A manager is an assistant to his men.
Thomas J. Watson

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot

Knowing all levels of a business is necessary to run it well.
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Roy Jacuzzi

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

Keep things informal. Talking is the most natural way to do business. Writing is for keeping records, but talk generates ideas.
T. Boone Pickens

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch

Love what you're doing. Believe in your product. Select good people.
Debbi Fields

You can become an excellent manager without becoming a good leader, but you cannot be an excellent leader without becoming a good manager.As a leader you will still use many management skills, but you will add a new dimension to your responsibility. You will learn the difference as well as the tools needed to make the transition from manager to leader.

Successful leaders in the future will be those who can shift from parent to partner, from controlling to coaching their employees, and out learn the competition. This workshop will describe the skills needed for managers to become mentors - powerful partners for learning. Participants will learn how to effectively transfer relevant experience, communicate cutting-edge competence, foster insight-producing discovery, and become a learning coach.

Leaders must possess the competency to sustain team morale and productivity through a state of constant change and must manage their own sanity in the process. We will explore successful tactics to balance empowerment with strategic direction, being tight where it counts, and accountability with motivational support.

Leadership ability, not management ability, is the primary criterion for upward mobility.

Leadership is more the managing of ideas than the managing of tasks.
Denise Altman of the Altman Initiative Group Inc., Matthews, North Carolina

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 Drucker

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
Senator Soaper

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.He is the teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
Peter F. Drucker

The assets of most businesses walk out of the door at the end of each day. The challenge to management is to create an environment which will motivate them to want to return the next day.
Lynn Yates

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The New York Times, 2003
Steve Jobs

Rather than just talking to consumers, they could talk with consumers.
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Steve Jobs

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

It is no longer enough to satisfy customers. You must delight them.
Philip Kotler

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
Charles Schwab, American stockbroker

Don't hesitate to fire clients who treat you or your staff with disrespect. They don't deserve you, and their business isn't worth having.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Listen to everyone in your company. And figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines, who actually talk to the customer, are the only ones who really know what's going on out there.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Share your profits with all your associates. Encourage your associates to hold a stake in the enterprise, offer discounted shares, grant them stock.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm - always. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. Then make everybody else sing with you. Don't do a hula on Wall Street. It's been done. Think up your own stunt. All of this is more important, and more fun, than you think, and it really fools the competition.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.
Bill Gates

A good example is the best sermon.
Benjamin Franklin

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.
Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.
Benjamin Franklin

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.
Will Rogers

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas

You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Hire people smarter than you are ... this shows you're smarter than they are.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it.
Leacock Stephen, Canadian economist

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose, Theatrical Producer

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman, US President

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Leadership is an action, not a word.
Richard P. Cooley

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

A decison is something that is made when there is no time to form a committee.

Always do right, This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
H. Jackson Brown

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton, Jr.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
Margaret Mead

It is not the goal that is unclear; it is the path.
Boris Buryakovskiy

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things.
Eric Butterworth

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
Andrew Young

A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Henry David Thoreau

Often you have to rely on your intuition.
William H. Gates

Don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
Warren Buffett

We're not pure economic creatures, and that policy penalizes our results somewhat, but we prefer to operate that way in life. What's the sense of becoming rich if you're going to have a pattern of operation where you continually discard associations with people you like, admire, and find interesting in order to earn a slightly bigger figure? We like big figures, but not to the exclusion of everything else.
Warren Buffett

I feel the same way about managing that I do about investing: It's just not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Valuing a business is part art and part science.
Warren Buffett

You should have knowledge of how business operates and the language of business accounting, some enthusiasm for the subject, and qualities of temperament which may be more important than IQ points. These will enable you to think independently and to avoid various forms of mass hysteria that infect the investment markets from time to time.
Warren Buffett

Wonderful castles, surrounded by deep, dangerous moats where the leader inside is an honest and decent person. Preferably, the castle gets its strength from the genius inside; the moat is permanent and acts as a powerful deterrent to those considering an attack; and inside, the leader makes gold but doesn't keep it all for himself. Roughly translated, we like great companies with dominant positions, whose franchise is hard to duplicate and has tremendous staying power or some permanence to it.
Warren Buffett

I'm like a basketball coach. I go out on the street and look for seven footers. If some guy comes up to me and says, I'm five six, but you ought to see me handle the ball, I'm not interested.
Warren Buffett

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
John Maynard Keynes

1. Out of clutter find simplicity 2. From discord find harmony 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
william Saroyan