Quotes on Management

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Author: James Agate

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

Author: Gerard Arpey

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Author: Norman Augustine

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

Author: Hans Blix

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Author: Tom Coburn

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

Author: John Conyers

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

Author: W. Deming

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Author: Peter Drucker

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Author: Charles Edwards

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Author: Arthur Erickson

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Author: Richard Ernst

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Author: Jim Evans

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

Author: Tom Felton

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

Author: Bill Ford

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

Author: Nat Friedman

Management must manage!

Author: Harold Geneen

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Author: Harold Geneen

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

Author: Richard Gough

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Author: Lauren Graham

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Author: Germaine Greer

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

Author: Richard Grimes

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Author: Robert Heller

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

Author: Robert Heller

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Author: Kin Hubbard

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

Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Author: Gwen Ifill

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

Author: Kevin Johnson

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Author: Edward Kennedy

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

Author: Henry Kravis

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Author: Tom Landry

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Author: Ian McKellen

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

Author: Jeff Miller

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

Author: Andrea Mitchell

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

Author: Kevin Mitnick

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

Author: Gale Norton

At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.

Author: Andrew Oliver

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Author: C. Parkinson

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Author: Jon Porter

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Author: Colin Powell

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Author: Pat Riley

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

Author: Lord Robertson

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Author: Jim Rogers

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Author: Charles Schwab

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Author: Frank Shorter

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Author: Frank Shorter

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

Author: Michael Simpson

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

Author: Jackie Stewart

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

Author: Carl Stokes

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

Author: Trish Stratus

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

Author: Maurice Strong

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

Author: Glenn Tipton

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Author: Linus Torvalds

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Author: Brian Tracy

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Author: Anthea Turner

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

Author: Rick Wagoner

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.

Author: Katharine Whitehorn

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Author: Samuel Wilson

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Author: Niklaus Wirth

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.

Author: Dick Wolf

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

Author: Paula Zahn

A clean house is a sign of a broken computer.

Author: Tracey Smith