Quotes about Management

“Things refuse to be mismanaged long.”

“Good managers have a bias for action.”

“A manager is an assistant to his men.”

“Who can direct when all pretend to know?”

“I head a nation of a million presidents.”

“A man is known by the company he organizes.”

“Man is the principal syllable in Management.”

“They that govern the most make the least noise.”

“Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.”

“The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.”

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

“Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.”

“You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.”

“Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.”

“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”

“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”

“Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.”

“Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.”

“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.”

“I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.”

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”

“Management's job is to see the company not as it is... but as it can become.”

“Remember that when an employee enters your office, they are in a strange land.”

“Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.”

“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.”

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.”