Quotes about Management
Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.
— Andy Stanley
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
— Sam Walton
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
— Woodrow Wilson
If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.
— Donald Whitney
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
— Drew Barrymore
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.
— Andy Stanley
The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.
— Charlie Munger
Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
— Simon Sinek
I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.
— Seth Godin