Manageable Quotes Page 2

I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth.

.. It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union.

They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.

Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

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.

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything.

Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep.

They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible. We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.