All management is the management of promises. — Tony Robbins
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. — Stuart Pearce
Management is the art of getting things done through people. — Mary Parker Follett
If at first you don't succeed, try management. — Stephen Hawking
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant. — Aubrey McClendon
Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois
Accounting is the language of business. — Warren Buffett
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot
My business is the analytical framework. — Todd Gitlin
Top 10 Business Management Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. — Donna Mills
My biggest regret in business is not starting sooner. It took 4 years to build my first website, but the day I actually started to build my website it only took me 10 hours. — Alex Hormozi
The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store. — Bill Ackman
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. — Brian Clough
Business Management Image Quotes
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Top Business Management Quotes
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
Real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies. — Bill Drayton
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you. — Stephanie Mills
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience — Phil Harding
Time Management In Business Quotes
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet. — Paul Hawken
In times of change, learners inherit the earth — Erich Fromm
The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. — Robert Updegraff
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind. — Stephen Covey
When you get into the entertainment business, you have to grow up a lot faster, because you're working nine and a half hours a day. I've learned time management at 14-years-old, and I've learned how to do all these different things that some people don't learn until they're in their 20s and 30s. — Lizzy Greene
Generally I still believe that Lewis [Hamilton] is the best champion that we have had in a long, long time. He manages to get to all different walks of life: red carpet, fashion business, and music - you name it. — Bernie Ecclestone
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
I don't have a lot of time for managing [my businesses], so I put a lot of trust in people I hire to manage my businesses. I can't necessarily attend to [the businesses] while I'm in season. We swap ideas on how we can improve and deliver a better product. — Kamerion Wimbley
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends. — Ruta Sepetys
It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management. — Henry Mintzberg
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention. — Eugene H. Peterson
Business Risk Management Quotes
An investment business has certain risks, and your job as an investor is not to eliminate all risks but to manage and minimize them. — Naved Abdali
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon
If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late. — Lee Iacocca
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. — Daniel Kahneman
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers. — Richard Thaler
Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good. — Larry Rosenberg
Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task — Richard Branson
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. — Edward Kennedy
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. — John Bates Clark
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street. — George Carlin
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring. — Sher Valenzuela
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. — Bernie Ecclestone
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. — Ruben Hinojosa
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses. — John F. Kerry
The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created. — Ellen Tauscher
You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse. — Howard K. Smith
Business Leadership Quotes
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so. — Milton S. Hershey
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. — Richard Branson
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
Business Marketing Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master. — Philip Kotler
Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business. — Lewis Howes
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. — Anita Brookner
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. — Larry Fink
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
Business Education Quotes
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless. — Jeffrey Gitomer
It's crazy that with an iPhone, a little Starlink antenna, and a solar power unit, you could live in an isolated cave in the mountains or on a raft in the middle of the Pacific and get a world-class education, start a business or art career, and make friends all around the world. — Tim Urban
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? — Diane Ravitch
In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. — Warren Buffett
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates
Strategic Management Quotes
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. — Michael Porter
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. — Peter Drucker
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
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. — Frank Shorter
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model — Harold Kerzner
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly. — Harriet Rubin
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell. — Richard Moran
The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. — David C. McClelland
Business Organization Quotes
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. — Ibn Khaldun
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever. — Ratan Tata
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within. — Alfred Thayer Mahan
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well. — Fernando Flores
If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. — Jeremy Jackson
Business Strategy Quotes
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
If one day we must sell something, first we want to turn it around and make it profitable. — Bernard Arnault
Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a vehicle for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy
I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations. — Chris Voss
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
While boards are better today than they were a decade ago, they continue to be far from optimal. Many directors depend on the income they receive from serving on boards, and as a result are reluctant to challenge management on strategy, risk-taking, or compensation. Often, they are business, social, and or charitable connections among the directors that reduce their independence or willingness to speak-up. Many CEOs prefer directors with no experience in a company’s principal lines of business because it makes it more difficult for them to challenge the CEO. — Bill Ackman
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle — Ellen MacArthur
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of their businesses will ultimately kill themselves as well as lose the support of team members. Learn to delegate key tasks and give credit. — Martin Zwilling
Two big lessons: 1: Never use a token you created as collateral. 2: Don't borrow if you run a crypto business. Don't use capital 'efficiently.' Have a large reserve. Binance has never used BNB for collateral, and we have never taken on debt. — Changpeng Zhao
You should be too busy to do coffee. — Naval Ravikant
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. — James C. Collins
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern. — Max Lucado
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. — Jonathan Sacks
We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business. — Fred L. Turner
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. — Norman Schwarzkopf
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed. — James C. Collins
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing. — Janet Yellen
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation. — Warren Buffett
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. — Lewis Howes
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. — Paul Orfalea
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. — Theodore Levitt
It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring — Ed Mayo
We’re the only group that has the ability to manage different activities that cover the entire range of the luxury business. — Bernard Arnault
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. — Lee Iacocca
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. — Charles Jaffe
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. — Ginni Rometty
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. — Brian Tracy
When do stockholders get no benefit from retained earnings? One way is when managements pile up cash and liquid assets far beyond any present or prospective needs for the business. — Philip Arthur Fisher
A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense. — Konosuke Matsushita
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. — Dolly Parton
My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. — Stana Katic
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