It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below. — Joseph M. Juran
Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers. — Joseph M. Juran
All management is the management of promises. — Tony Robbins
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management. — Akio Morita
...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. — Joseph M. Juran
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. — Pat Riley
You need the right team of inspired managers. — Bernard Arnault
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow. — Steve Jobs
Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich. — Robert H. Johnson
The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management! — W. Edwards Deming
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
Short Top Management Quotes
Management is the art of getting things done through people. — Mary Parker Follett
One key element of management of a group like this is decentralization. — Bernard Arnault
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. — Stuart Pearce
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility. — Jerry Junkins
It’s not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. — Bernard Arnault
A leadership will be successful if it is able to serve the bottom. — Joko Widodo
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren G. Bennis
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce
Top Management Image Quotes
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Top Business Management Quotes
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. — Brian Clough
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
When you reach the top, keep climbing.
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
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
What Is Management Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about? — Dale Carnegie
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
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
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. — Chester Barnard
Somewhere in your life, some resource is either being wasted or being inefficiently managed. Find out what it is and improve upon it. Of course, your most precious resource is yourself. Are you using yourself enough? — Mahatria Ra
That’s what stress management is about, that’s what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby — any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. — Robert M. Sapolsky
What’s not measured cannot be monitored. What’s not monitored cannot be controlled. What’s not controlled cannot be directed. And, what’s not directed cannot become progress. From personal fitness to building a world class organisation, this is the essence of management. — Mahatria Ra
Powerful Management Quotes
In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. — Jimmy Hoffa
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. — Isabel Allende
The climb is tough, but the view from the top is worth it.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions. — Stephen Covey
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. — Thomas Pynchon
So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to give birth without being dependent on somebody else. This isn't the case at all. — Michel Odent
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue. — Samuel Williams
Show me a manager who ignores the power of praise, and I will show you a lousy manager. — Michael Abrashoff
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Senior Management Quotes
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?" — Peter R. Scholtes
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line. — Michelle Bachelet
Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis. — Henry Kravis
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. — Andrea Jung
We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable. — Charlie Munger
The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other. — Sam Walton
If you want to improve how you manage your time, stop doing what doesn't need to be done.
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me. — Rupert Murdoch
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. — David Platt
Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors? — Gracia Martore
Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about. — Rick Ungar
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. — Tina Fey
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish — Ian Holloway
It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required. — W. Edwards Deming
Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable — Bernie Sanders
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price. — Peter Drucker
There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now. — Richard Koch
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
What sets us apart from some of the other options available would definitely be our unique combination of skills and craftsmanship with being a well-managed business. We control the number of projects we are involved with so that our clients remain a top priority throughout the duration of their project. — Kris Kidd
The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. — C. K. Prahalad
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context. — Richard Pascale
It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation. — Henry Paulson
The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches. — Joe Bastianich
"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is. — Robert Townsend
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. — Bill Ford
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong. — Ryan Holmes
They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it. — Jamie Dimon
The enemy of the "best" is often the "good." — Stephen Covey
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. — Charles Hummel
Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on. — Noam Chomsky
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. — Donald Rumsfeld
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions. — Warren G. Bennis
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. — Norman Ralph Augustine
. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . . — Buck Rodgers
I'll never forget the day I was called in by a member of top management [at Ford] and told to stop associating with any known or suspected environmentalists. — Bill Ford
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. — Kevin Kelly
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success. — Slavoj Žižek
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution. — Peter Drucker
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. — David Ogilvy
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it — Paulo Coelho
I think Pep Guardiola is a top manager. There's no doubt about that. Not only did he manage Messi and Iniesta, but he made them better and took them to levels they'd never been before. The best team I've ever seen is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. I'm sure his management got something to do with that. — Jamie Carragher
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