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Management Quotes

On the people and decisions that steer a company's fortunes.

These quotes treat management as the real variable behind a business — one naming it as decisive for how a company fares, another describing the grind of commuting for a management job, a third noting how a company's model reaches beyond simple retail. See Business quotes.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

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.

Quotes by Gale Norton

42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's...

Quotes by Gail Kelly

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

Quotes by Frederick W. Smith

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Quotes by Fred Wilson

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

Quotes by Fred L. Turner

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Quotes by Frank Shorter

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.

Quotes by Frank Shorter

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

Quotes by Frank Carlucci

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

One of the management imperatives in the '90s is managing diversity. Whatever the organization, when the constituents of that organization look at the board and management staff, they need to find themselves.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management.

Quotes by Frances Hesselbein

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Quotes by Florence Nightingale

There's a lot of fighters that pop up out of the blue that you never heard of. They just don't have the management or the promotion team or the spotlight, you know, to be seen. That's the ones you've gotta...

Quotes by Errol Spence Jr.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

Quotes by Erwin McManus

We all know how management works. If you don't win things, as has happened before, people start to call for your head.

Quotes by Ernesto Valverde

A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

Quotes by Eric Schmidt

The players, when we get in the locker room, we talk about what’s going on. And the players always see how the management or how ownership treat other players, treat other players around.

Quotes by Enes Kanter

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "management" quotes cover?
It ranges from calling management "the key to a company," to a personal commuting story at Waste Management, Suning's tech-driven management approach, and a wry line about brilliant management meeting a bad-economics business.
Does a quote say management is the most important factor in a company?
Yes: "Look first at management. That's the key to a company."
Is there a personal story about working at Waste Management?
Yes: "Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work."
Does a quote describe a company's management as tech-focused?
Yes: "Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company."
Is there a witty observation about management versus a bad business?
Yes: "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." See the Business collection for more.

One line observes that brilliant management can outlast a business with weak economics, a sharper claim than the usual leadership platitude — explore Best and Like quotes for more.