Management Quotes

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, "Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!" We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

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

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.