I didn't see the original post or I would have sent this "off list" to the
person that requested management quotations. This is a selection from my
database.
Christie Mason
clmason@essex1.com
Illinois
http://www.managersforum.com/ASTD/2000-2001/clm.jpg
[...LOL Christie. I sent the quotations along WITHOUT any particular
person requesting it. But your list is valuable. I see these as possibly
being used as spice to pepper syllabi, textbooks, what-not. Cyberchef,
Charlie]
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Christie's list:
MANAGEMENT Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not
dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Winston Churchill
MANAGEMENT Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things
right. Blaine Lee
MANAGEMENT Boldness becomes rarer the higher the rank. Karl von Clausewitz
MANAGEMENT Corruption and dishonesty seem to occur when the leader loses
sight of the fact that he or she has been given power for one purpose -- to
serve others. Anonymous
MANAGEMENT For every complex question, there's a simple answer, and it's
wrong. Oscar Wilde
MANAGEMENT Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as
he can be and should be, and he will become as he can and should be. Goethe
MANAGEMENT Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is
totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals. adapted from
Howard Gartner
MANAGEMENT The most important quality in a leader is that of being
acknowledged as such. Andre Maurois
MANAGEMENT The most important thing that a commander can do is to see the
ship from the eyes of the crew. Commandar D. Michael Abrashoff, USS Benfold
MANAGEMENT It is an immutable law in business that words are words,
explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance
is reality. Harold S. Geneen
MANAGEMENT The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor,
determines the success or failure of an organization. Fred Fiedler
MANAGEMENT The real dividing line between things we call work and the things
we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our
own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life
is our own. Raymond Williams
MANAGEMENT The two things that people want more sex or money are recognition
and praise. Mary Kay
MANAGEMENT We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning
to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful
method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually
producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter,
210 BC. Or Petronius Satyricon, First Century AD
MANAGEMENT There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
MANAGEMENT Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to
complain of its shortness. Jean de La Bruysre, 17th century French essayist
MANAGEMENT To give real service you must add something which cannot be
bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Donald
A. Adams
MANAGEMENT The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And,
because credit is not taken, credit is received. Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC
MANAGEMENT Today's newest breed of employee is the self-manager. These
workers are the ones who survived the recent waves of downsizing, both by
seeking and capitalizing on new opportunities and by learning new skills.
Because these employees increasingly possess the skills and technological
tools to supervise themselves - individually or in teams - they are
eliminating the need for layers of management. More executives will soon
find their jobs redundant, while self-managing front-line workers become
highly valued and virtually fire proof. Everyone should strive to become
self-managed. It is clearly the direction business is taking. John
Challenger
MANAGEMENT The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by
putting in an above-average effort. Colin Powell.
MANAGEMENT Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help
them to become what they are capable of being. Goethe
MANAGEMENT We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their
weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their
strengths. Peter Drucker
MANAGEMENT What gets measured gets done; what gets recognized gets done even
better. Unknown
MANAGEMENT Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
MANAGEMENT With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers
only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage. Colin Powell
MANAGEMENT You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment
that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms
of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success--or
are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone
MANAGEMENT You can buy a person's time; you can buy his physical presence in
a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular
motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm. You cannot buy
initiative. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds and souls. You
have to earn those things. Clarence Francis
MANAGEMENT You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat
those who can do nothing for them or to them. Malcolm Forbes
MANAGEMENT You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go.
Lachlan McLean
MANAGEMENT You cannot be a leader and ask others to follow you, unless you
know how to follow too.
MANAGEMENT You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with
some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up
with a top-notch fighting unit. Colonel Charles Beckwith, Delta Force
Commander
MANAGEMENT To nurture rich insights and intuitions, a knowledge-creating
company needs diversity in the pool of talents available within the company.
This diversity enhances requisite variety, which is one of the enabling
conditions for the organization. Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
MANAGEMENT Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency
in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they
dislike. Alexander Hamilton
MANAGEMENT I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hands. If you
hold it too tightly, you crush it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose
it. Tommy Lasorda
MANAGEMENT I divide the world into believers and infidels. What the
infidels don't understand - and they far outnumber the believers - is that
innovative practices combined with true empowerment produce phenomenal
results. Commandar D. Michael Abrashoff, USS Benfold
MANAGEMENT Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to
improve others. Dale Carnegie
MANAGEMENT It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization--it is those
who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are
forever clogging things up. Charles Sorenson
MANAGEMENT It's what you ARE that your people learn, not what you do
deliberately. What parents do deliberately probably makes almost no
difference in whether their children grow up to be happy or unhappy,
successful or unsuccessful, good or evil. My guess is that the same dynamic
occurs in management, and leadership. That's why the technology of
management, like the technology of parenting is such a blind alley, or
worse, such a wrong turn, taking us to a place we shouldn't be going. Dr.
Richard Farson
MANAGEMENT Leadership flows from the minds of followers more than from the
titles of leaders, more from the perception of willing followers than from
annointment. Lane Secretan
MANAGEMENT Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crews. Admiral Grace Murray
Hopper
MANAGEMENT Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of
management says is possible. Colin Powell
MANAGEMENT Making other people feel important requires self-discipline. it
means respecting the opinion of others, being fair and honest,taking pride
in serving others, and being kind, patient and likable.
MANAGEMENT Managers without standards for persistence teach people to follow
the line of least resistance. Gerhard Gschwandtner
MANAGEMENT Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other
person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields
mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. B. C.
Forbes
MANAGEMENT People in any organization will tend to treat new concepts and
ideas as follows: 5% will accept immediately - 25% will lean towards
acceptance - 60% will wait and see, if it seems okay, 10% will never accept
anything. Unknown
MANAGEMENT The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish
almost anything if you're willing to pay the price. Vince Lombardi
MANAGEMENT Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as
the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity
of the organization. Peter F. Drucker
MANAGEMENT People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they
have discovered than by those which have come from the mind of others.
Pascal
MANAGEMENT People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people
must be led. H. Ross Perot
MANAGEMENT People go to work to succeed, not to fail. It is the manager's
job to understand people's strengths and weaknesses. Managers who strive to
find the good in their people will achieve far more than managers who only
find fault.
MANAGEMENT Align people's passions with the priorities and you'll achieve
performance. Steve Brown
MANAGEMENT The assets of most businesses walk out of the door at the end of
each day. The challenge to management is to create an environment which
will motivate them to want to return the next day. Lynn Yates
MANAGEMENT Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right
things. Peter Drucker
MANAGEMENT Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and
emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal
growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well
as personal development. Charles Garfield, Peak Performers
MANAGEMENT Since we can no longer rely on the company for security, it must
come from within. For people who know who they are and what they're called
to do, it will be a world of great opportunity. For those who continue to
define themselves in terms of the expectations and opinions of others, it
will be a world of pain and frustration. Joe Tye