“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real

management is developing people through work.”

 Agha Hasan Abedi quotes

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether

the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

 Stephen R. Covey quotes

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so
constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”

 Paul Hawken quotes

“All time management begins with planning.”  Tom Greening quotes

“"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads

into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.”

 Robert Townsend quotes

“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”

 Kin Hubbard quotes (American Humorist and Writer, 1868-1930)

“The smaller the function, the greater the management.”

 C. Northcote Parkinson quotes (English Writer, 1909-1993)

“No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.”

 Bill Terry quotes

“That management is best which manages least, and in the end, when workers are ready for
it, that management is best which manages not at all.”  eathian
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"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

"Make your top managers rich and they will make you
rich."
— Robert H. Johnson

"Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it

is in the power of thine hand to do it."
— Proverbs 3:27

"Catch someone doing something right."

— Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it

annoys the pig."
— Paul Dickson

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find,

delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy
you've decided upon is being carried out."
— Ronald Reagan
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and
do not use them as means to your end."
— Immanuel Kant

"Management by objectives works if you first think

through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you
haven't."
— Peter Drucker

"Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying

your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get
bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper
shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a
while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the
cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of
time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting
at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea."
— Harvey Mackay

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it

impossible for anyone to accomplish."
— Marcus Aurelius
"We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy
is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social
worth."
— Harold J. Leavitt

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of

success; leadership determines whether the ladder is
leaning against the right wall."
— Stephen R. Covey

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them
to get on with it . . . ; Look for people who will aim for the
remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
— David Ogilvy

"When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities

to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else
can be bought by the yard."
— John W. Gardner

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you

away from the guys who are undecided."
 — Casey Stengel

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the

world."
— John Le Caré

"Good management is the art of making problems so

interesting and their solutions so constructive that
everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
—Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism

"I believe the real difference between success and failure

in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of
how well the organization brings out the great energies
and talents of its people."
— Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
A Business and its Beliefs (1963)

"Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things

to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right
number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to
another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the
business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of
ideas."
 — Jack Welch

"So much of what we call management consists in making

it difficult for people to work."
— Peter Drucker

"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science,

and craft meet."
— Henry Mintzberg
McGill University

"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the
servant be sometimes deaf."
— R Buckminster Fuller

"The conventional definition of management is getting

work done through people, but real management is
developing people through work."
— Agha Hasan Abedi

 Quotes about Management

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good
tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. Thomas J. Watson
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore
Roosevelt

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter Drucker

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

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether

the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey

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

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave
some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to
fill some of them. Donald Rumsfeld

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either.
Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people
involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. Colin Powell

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

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things,
you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to
remove obstacles. Scott Adams
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C Northcote Parkinson

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted
planning books. Jack Welch

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