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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.

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming...

Quotes by Rickie Fowler

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Quotes by Richard V. Allen

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

Quotes by Richard Gough

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...

Quotes by Richard Grimes

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

Quotes by Richard Ernst

Gender parity in management is a necessity.

Quotes by Richard Edelman

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Quotes by Ricardo Semler

Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where highlights and storytelling ruled the day to a show where analysts ruled the day.

Quotes by Rich Eisen

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

Quotes by Renee James

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

Quotes by Ram Shriram

I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

Quotes by Ramon Rodriguez

In India, we have the global services HQ, R&D centres, global network operating centres, global manufacturing, and product management - India is not just a market but a country we use for extended NSN.

Quotes by Rajeev Suri

I don't think football management is easy.

Quotes by Phil Neville

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

Quotes by Phil Neville

We are very fortunate to have Matt Carter join the Apollo board. Matt brings deep management, operations, marketing and international business expertise to the company, along with a track record of growing and strengthening well-known consumer brands.

Quotes by Peter Sperling

Old-style management is irrelevant.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

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.

Quotes by Peter Drucker

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Quotes by Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Quotes by Peter Drucker

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.