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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.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Quotes by Sean Hayes

One of the marks of our economic management is that we've always exceeded expectations.

Quotes by Scott Morrison

Our first product was Quicken, which is personal financial management on a PC. It had a tough start, and we ran some tracking surveys to understand who was using it. Half the users claimed to use it in some sort...

Quotes by Scott Cook

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

Quotes by Sarah Vaughan

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

Quotes by Sandro Veronesi

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.

Quotes by Samuel Wilson

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

Quotes by Sam Walton

In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for,...

Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Quotes by Russel Honore

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

Quotes by Ronald Coase

Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

Quotes by Romain Grosjean

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

Quotes by Rodney Frelinghuysen

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Quotes by Robert Heller

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Quotes by Robert Heller

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

Quotes by Robert Heller

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

Quotes by Ricky Jay

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.

Quotes by Rick Wagoner

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.