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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.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Quotes by Elon Musk

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being...

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.

Quotes by Elaine Chao

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

Quotes by Edward Kennedy

You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

Quotes by Douglas Leone

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency...

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

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

Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

Quotes by Donald Luskin

I have a clear bias for international, global experience. On my management team, everybody has two or three countries they've lived and worked in.

Quotes by Dinesh Paliwal

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

Quotes by Dirk Kempthorne

The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.

Quotes by Dilip Shanghvi

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.

Quotes by Dick Wolf

I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and...

Quotes by Diane Garnick

On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the...

Quotes by Diana Taylor

The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off 'Nitro' for a while to keep the nWo from getting to me.

Quotes by Diamond Dallas Page

Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver.

Quotes by Denise Dresser

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

Quotes by Dee Rees

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

Quotes by Debi Mazar

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Quotes by Debbie Allen

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.